* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. KEEP GOING. [00:00:01] LET'S DO IT. [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE] GOOD EVENING, . THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE. THAT'S GREAT. WE LOVE IT. UM, HOPEFULLY Y'ALL ARE ALL HERE FOR THE GOOD STUFF. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH, UH, 2024. REGULAR SESSION OF THE LAKE JACKSON CITY COUNCIL. UH, WE'LL START TONIGHT WITH OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE GIVEN TO US BY COUNCILMAN SHAN ALLEGIANCE FLAG IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND REPUBLIC FOR WHICH STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD AND INVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ON TEXAS. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO BE TEXAS. TEXAS, ONE STATE UNDER GOD. ONE AN INDIVISIBLE. THANK YOU. OUR INVOCATION TONIGHT WILL BE LED BY COUNCILMAN MUELL. LET US PRAY HERE. HEAVEN, ME. FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO MEET HERE THIS EVENING, AND OUR MEETING, UH, CONTINUES AND DECISIONS HAVE TO BE MADE. WE ASK YOU THAT YOU GIVE US THE STRENGTH, WISDOM, COURAGE TO MAKE THE DECISION THAT WE FEEL IN THE BEST INTEREST OF OUR CITY AND THAT OF OUR RESIDENTS. WE ASK YOU TO BE WITH OUR EMT FOLKS, FIRE AND POLICE PERSONNEL, OUR MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR ARMED FORCES, AND BE WITH US AS WE TRAVEL HOME. GET US HOME SAFELY. HEARING YOUR NAME, WE PRAY. AMEN. AMEN. AMEN. OKAY, NEXT IS THE VISITOR COMMENT SECTION. THIS, UH, ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR CITIZENS THAT WANT TO ADDRESS COUNSEL ON SOMETHING THAT IS NOT A PART OF TONIGHT'S AGENDA. AND, UM, YOU CAN COME UP AND SPEAK AND WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T ANSWER OR RESPOND BACK. BUT, UH, IF ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE HAS, UH, SOMETHING THEY'D LIKE TO SAY THAT'S NOT COVERED BY THIS AGENDA TONIGHT, NOW'S YOUR TIME. OKAY. SEEING NONE, WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SECTION. [PRESENTATIONS] PRESENTATIONS. OUR FIRST PRESENTATION TONIGHT. UM, CPR, RECOGNITION OF AMY PATTON. PEYTON A PATTON. UM, KATE, PLEASE COME STAND WITH ME. CITY COUNCIL MAYOR PRO TEM. HOW ARE Y'ALL? VERY GOOD. TODAY I'D LIKE TO CELEBRATE A REMARKABLE, A REMARKABLE EVENT THAT HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF THE PERFORMANCE AND THE STRENGTHS OF OUR COMMUNITY, THE COURAGE OF OUR CITIZENS. THAT WAS THE WRONG SPEECH. . MY NAME IS CADE BONKO. UH, I HAVE BEEN WITH LAKE JACKSON EMS SINCE 2010. UH, I HOLD THE POSITION OF ASSISTANT CHIEF FIRST. I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE HERE TODAY. UH, I BELIEVE THAT THIS EVENT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, UM, AND IT HIGHLIGHTS SOMETHING THAT TRULY MATTERS. I WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO CELEBRATE LIFE AND THE EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE WHO FIGHT TO PRESERVE IT. ALRIGHT, I HAVE A SHORT VIDEO, UH, THAT'LL BE ON THE, THE SCREENS BEHIND YOU. I NEED EMS AND PD EN ROUTE TO HEB, NEAR THE GROCERY SIDE AT THE FRONT OF THE STORE, HAVE A MINOR ACCIDENT, BUT THE MALE OF THE OTHER VEHICLE IS HAVING SOME TYPE OF MEDICAL ISSUE, FOAMING AT THE MOUTH AND TURNING PURPLE. 34 50 SHOW MAIN ROUTE TO HEBV, ALL EMS UNITS. HEADED TO HV PD ON SCENE IS STARTING CPR 34 50 34 50. CAN YOU CHECK THE STATUS OF LIFE FLIGHT 34 50. THEY'RE UNAVAILABLE SIZE. THEY CANNOT LAUNCH [00:05:04] JAMES, I THINK, IN THE COURT THAT YOU STAND HERE WITH ME AND, UH, SUPPORT US AS WE, AS WE GO THROUGH THIS. ON JULY 17TH, WHAT BEGAN AS A ROUTINE TRIP FOR JAMES TO HEB BECAME A LIFE CHANGING EVENT FOR HIM. AS HE GOT INTO HIS TRUCK, LEAVING HEB, HIS HEART SUDDENLY BEGAN TO STOP. AS HE BEGAN TO LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS, HIS TRUCK WAS IN DRIVE. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE BRAKE. HIS VEHICLE LURCHED FORWARD INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE THAT WAS IN THE PARKING LOT OF HEB. HIS BODY AT THAT POINT, HAD STOPPED FUNCTIONING. IT JUST SO HAPPENED THAT THE VEHICLE THAT JAMES ROLLED INTO WAS OCCUPIED BY SOMEONE THAT WAS ABOUT TO CHANGE HIS LIFE. OCCUPIED BY AMY PATTON. AMY WAS MEANT TO BE SITTING IN HER VEHICLE AT THIS TIME. SHE WAS AN ANGEL SENT TO LOOK OVER HIM. IN THIS MOMENT, WHEN SHE STEPPED OUT OF HER VEHICLE, SHE EXPECTED TO LOOK FOR A DENT OR A SCRATCH, BASED OFF THE MINOR IMPACT THAT SHE WAS, UH, THAT SHE HAD JUST EXPERIENCED. AND WHAT SHE FOUND INSTEAD WAS JAMES, WHOSE HEART WAS STARTING TO DIE. NOW, JA, AMY IS A PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCHER WITH 17 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. SHE'S NAVIGATED COUNTLESS EMERGENCIES ON HER OWN, BUT NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED HER FOR THE EXPERIENCE TODAY, THE TRIAL THAT SHE WAS ABOUT TO FACE, AS SHE APPROACHED JAMES'S TRUCK, SHE REALIZED HOW GRAVE THE SITUATION WAS, BUT SHE DIDN'T HESITATE. SHE ACTED, SHE ACTED CONFIDENTLY. AMY CALLED 9 1 1 AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN THE RESPONSE SYSTEM FROM US AND FROM OUR PARTNERS AND THE LAW ENFORCEMENT. SHE DIRECTED AN INDIVIDUAL THAT WAS CLOSE BY TO HELP HER PULL JAMES OUT OF THE VEHICLE. IT WAS POURING RAIN. THE SITUATION WAS HEAVY, AND SHE WAS DOING ALL OF THIS CONFIDENTLY. SHE DID NOT PANIC. SHE PLACED JAMES ONTO THE GROUND, AND WITHOUT HESITATION, BEGAN DOING COMPRESSIONS, BEGAN DOING CPR. I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH EMS FOR 14 YEARS NOW. THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE I SEE IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS FREEZE WITH UNCERTAINTY, OVERWHELMED, BUT AMY DID NOT FALTER. HER IMMEDIATE ACTIONS WERE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH WERE JAMES. EVERY MINUTE THE BODY BODY'S DEPRIVED OF OXYGEN BRINGS IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE TO THE BRAIN. HIS STORY MIGHT HAVE ENDED IN TRAGEDY IF HE HAD GONE THOSE TWO MINUTES WITHOUT AMY BY HIS SIDE. SHE'S, INSTEAD, HE STANDS HERE WITH ME TODAY, LIVING PROOF OF HOW IMPORTANT BYSTANDER CPR IS. SO TONIGHT WE HONOR AMY, NOT JUST AS A BYSTANDER, BUT AS A GUARDIAN ANGEL WHO CHOSE TO ACT WHEN IT MATTERED. MOST. AMY, YOU EMBODY HEROISM, AND YOU'VE REMINDED ALL OF US HOW A PERSON CAN MAKE A PROFOUND DIFFERENCE IN SOMEONE'S DARKEST HOUR. I DON'T WANNA FORGET THE OTHER HEROES THAT WERE PRESENT ON THIS DAY, THAT SHE WAS NOT THE ONLY HERO. JUST A VERY IMPORTANT PIECE OF THIS EQUATION. FOUR OTHER KEY GROUPS CAME TOGETHER, UNITED IN THEIR MISSION. LAKE JACKSON POLICE DEPARTMENT, DISPATCH AND PATROL DIVISIONS, LAKE JACKSON, OUR OWN LAKE JACKSON, EMS, EMTS AND PARAMEDICS, AND ONE OF OUR LAKE JACKSON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL WHO JUST HAPPENED TO BE AT HEB DURING THE EVENT. I KNOW SOME CAN EASILY SAY THAT IT'S JUST THEIR JOB, IT'S JUST WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO. BUT I CAN CONFIDENTLY STAND HERE AND TELL YOU THAT JAMES IS ALIVE TODAY. NOT BECAUSE WE DO OUR JOB, BUT BECAUSE OUR EXPECTATIONS ARE HIGH, OUR MISSION IS CLEAR, AND OUR TRAINING IS EXCEPTIONAL. I WANNA HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THESE INDIVIDUALS. UM, SADLY, BOTH OF THE DISPATCHERS WHO WERE PRESENT ON [00:10:01] THIS, UM, WEREN'T ABLE TO ATTEND TODAY. BUT THEIR SUPERVISOR, REYNA IS REPRESENTING THEM. UH, THEY WERE ABLE TO QUICKLY DISPATCH US AND SEND US TO THE APPROPRIATE SCENE. UM, THEIR EFFECTIVE DISPATCH ALWAYS SHAVES SECONDS OFF OF OUR RESPONSE, LIFESAVING SECONDS. WILL TAYLOR, WHERE'S WILL TAYLOR? HE'S HIDING . WILL TAYLOR, UH, IS WITH LAKE JACKSON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. HE WAS, UM, SIMPLY JUST AT HEB AND HE IS ALWAYS READY TO RESPOND. HE ALWAYS HAS HIS RADIO WITH HIM. WHEN HE HEARD THE CALL COME OUT, HE IMMEDIATELY RESPONDED. ONE THING THAT HE TOLD ME WAS THAT WHEN HE GOT TO AMY, HE SAW THAT SHE WAS DOING IMPECCABLE CPR. HER CHEST COMPRESSIONS WERE SO GOOD THAT HE DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO INTERRUPT THEM. HE WENT AND OBTAINED HIS VEHICLE AND TURNED THE LIGHTS ON. SINCE WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A PARKING LOT, TO GUIDE OTHER RESPONDERS TO THE APPROPRIATE LOCATION, WE HAVE LJPD, SERCH AND SAM MONGAN. HE'S, HE'S RIGHT OVER THERE. BOTH OF THESE OFFICERS WERE THE FIRST ON SCENE AND SERCH ARRIVED AND IMMEDIATELY, UM, TOOK OVER FOR AMY AS SHE HAD BEEN DOING CPR FOR ABOUT TWO MINUTES, ALL BY HERSELF, UH, SERCH. WHEN I ARRIVED, SERCH WAS DOING IMPECCABLE COMPRESSIONS. MONGAN BEGAN GUIDING OTHER AMBULANCES INTO THE RIGHT LOCATION AND STARTED REACHING OUT TO FIND FAMILY AND OUR OWN CLINICAL CARE TEAM. UH, ALL OF THESE GUYS ARE STANDING RIGHT HERE. I KNOW THAT THESE GUYS TRAIN HARD ON A DAILY BASIS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN HAVE AND PRODUCE THE OUTCOMES LIKE THIS ONE. RYAN SMITH, JANESSA JANEY, JONATHAN SANDERS, MIRANDA ANO, AND CHRIS SIRINI ARE ALL STANDING HERE WHO TRAIN WITH ME ON A DAILY BASIS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN DO GOOD CARE. THE MIRACLE OF JAMES'S RECOVERY IS A DIRECT RESULT OF THESE FACTORS. THESE HEROES WORK TIRELESSLY 24 7 WITHOUT SEEING THE IMPACT OF THEIR EFFORTS. NO WORDS CAN FULLY EXPRESS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR ALL OR WHAT YOU'VE ALL DONE FOR JAMES. I DO HAVE A SMALL TOKEN OF THAT DAY. UM, I'VE GOT A SPECIAL SYMBOL AND A CHALLENGE COIN. AND THIS CHALLENGE COIN IS GOING TO BE PRESENTED FOR EACH OF THE RESPONDERS, UH, SO THAT THEY CAN REMEMBER THE IMPACT THAT THEIR PERFORMANCE BROUGHT. THIS IS MY MEDICAL DIRECTOR, DR. MARCUS SIMS. GOOD EVENING. CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, GUESTS AND CITIZENS OF LAKE JACKSON. TODAY WE CELEBRATE A REMARKABLE EVENT THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE STRENGTH OF THE COMMUNITY, THE COURAGE OF OUR CITIZENS, AND THE OUTSTANDING DEDICATION OF LAKE JACKSON EMERGENCY SERVICES. JULY 17TH, WE WITNESSED A SAVING MOMENT THAT SERVES AS A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF SWIFT ACTION AND TEAMWORK. THANKS TO THE QUICK THINKING OF A BYSTANDER, AMY, WHO RECOGNIZED THE SIGNS OF A CARDIAC EVENT AND IMMEDIATELY INITIATED CPRA LIFE WAS SAVED THAT DAY. HER DECISIVE ACTIONS EXEMPLIFY HOW VITAL BYSTANDER INTERVENTION CAN BE IN EMERGENCIES. BUT THE STORY DOESN'T END THERE. THE RAPID RESPONSE OF LEE JACKSON EMS PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THIS SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME. OUR DEDICATED MEDICS WHO TRAINED TIRELESSLY TO REMAIN AT THE FOREFRONT OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE ARRIVED AT THE SCENE SWIFTLY. THEIR EXPERTISE AND PROFESSIONALISM ENSURED THAT THE PATIENT RECEIVED CRITICAL CARE NEEDED TO STABILIZE HIS CONDITION. AT LATE JACKSON EMS. I PRIDE MYSELF AS BEING THEIR MEDICAL DIRECTOR. AS I CONTINUALLY WITNESS TRAINING ABOVE INDUSTRY STANDARDS. OUR MEDICS ARE NOT JUST RESPONDERS. THEY'RE WELL PREPARED, TEAM EQUIPPED WITH THE LATEST TE KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNIQUES. ONE OF THE INNOVATIVE METHODS WE EMPLOY IS PIT CREW, CPR. THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH THAT ALLOWS US TO PERFORM HIGH QUALITY CPR EFFICIENTLY WITH MINIMAL INTERRUPTIONS IN CHEST COMPRESSIONS. THIS TECHNIQUE MAXIMIZES THE CHANCES OF A SURVIVAL WHO'S EXPERIENCING CARDIAC ARREST, DEMONSTRATING HOW WE ARE SETTING OURSELVES APART FROM THE REST OF THE INDUSTRY. OUR DEDICATION TO EXCELLENCE EXTENDS BEYOND THE SCENE OF AN EMERGENCY. LAKE JACKSON EMS HAS BUILT A STRONG AND OUTSTANDING REPUTATION WITH OUR LOCAL HOSPITALS, FOSTERING STRONG PARTNERSHIPS WITH HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS TO ENSURE OUR PATIENTS RECEIVE SEAMLESS AND EXCEPTIONAL CARE. THIS IS EVIDENT BY THE DIFFICULT DECISION THAT WE HAD TO MAKE ON THE DAY OF JAMES' CARDIAC ARREST, WHERE WE HAD TO TRANSPORT BY GROUND TO PEARLAND, HCA, WHICH WOULD HAPPEN TO BE THE CLOSEST CARDIAC CATHETER LAB THAT WAS AVAILABLE AT THE TIME. TODAY, WE HONOR NOT ONLY AMY AND OUR LEAGUE, JACKSON, EMS TEAMS AND THE OTHER AGENCIES INVOLVED, BUT ALSO THE MANY INDIVIDUALS IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO ARE TRAINED IN C-P-R-C-P-R [00:15:01] COURSES ARE HELD MONTHLY AT LEAGUE JACKSON EMS. FOR THIS REASON, EACH OF YOU PLAYS A VITAL ROLE IN MAKING LEAGUE JACKSON A SAFER PLACE. YOUR READINESS TO RESPOND JUST LIKE AMY DID, CAN MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH. MY TURN, I, UH, PREPARED A STATEMENT, BUT, UH, I'M GONNA HAVE MY MOTHER READ IT. THAT'S OKAY WITH YOU. 'CAUSE I I CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT GETTING CHOKED UP. BUT, BUT, UH, I JUST WANNA SAY THINGS TO EVERYBODY. WELL, I I HAVE A STATEMENT. IT'S JUST ONLY ONE PAGE LONG. UH, SO BEFORE I START WITH THIS, UM, I BELIEVE IN AND YOU SOMETIMES IT WAS A MIRACLE OR WAS IT A COINCIDENCE? I'M GONNA LET Y'ALL DECIDE WHAT IT WAS. JAMES SAYS, THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE INVOLVED THAT HELPED SAVE MY LIFE THAT DESERVED RECOGNITION. AND I WOULD LIKE TO START AT THE END OF THE STORY. I WAS FIRST DELIVERED TO HCA IN HERAND BY LAKE JACKSON EMS. WHEN I ARRIVED THERE, THE CARDIOLOGIST PERFORMED THE FIRST PROCEDURE INSTALLING TWO STENTS AND AN IMPELLA TO KEEP MY BLOOD FLOWING TO MY BRAIN. I WAS THEN HA FLIGHTED HALO FLIGHTED TO THE HOUSTON MED CENTER. I THINK THEY HAD TO WAIT ABOUT AN HOUR, AN HOUR TO GET A CLEARANCE FOR THE HELICOPTER TO TWICE. SO HE STAYED IN. CAROLINE, CAROLINE THIS WHOLE TIME. THERE WAS A TEAM OF DOCTORS PERFORMED MORE PROCEDURES ON ME, INSTALLING A PACEMAKER, A DEFIBRILLATOR, AND WORKED VERY HARD IN GETTING MY AND AN IMPALA, AND WORKED VERY HARD IN GETTING MY HEART INTO A NORMAL RHYTHM. I SPENT A TOTAL OF FIVE WEEKS IN THE CRITICAL CARE ICU UNIT IN HOUSTON AT THE HOSPITAL. THREE OF THOSE WEEKS, HE WAS IN A VERY SEDUCED, UNCONSCIOUS, UNCONSCIOUS . AND THEN ON THE, THE, UH, THIRD AND FOURTH WEEK, HE WAS ON A, UH, A VENTILATOR AND THE 24 7 DIALYSIS, THE WHOLE THREE WEEKS AND THE FOURTH WEEK THEY TOOK HIM OFF THE DIALYSIS. THEY TOOK HIM OFF THE VENTILATOR, REDUCED THE, UH, SEDATION, AND HE CAME IN. UM, WE ARE FORTUNATE TO LIVE SO CLOSE TO THE BEST MEDICAL SERVICE IN THE COUNTRY AT HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER. HE WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE FROM LAKE JACKSON TO THE A CA HOSPITAL IN LY AND BY THE LAKE JACKSON EMS, MR. K , THE DIRECTOR AND HIS TEAM OF FIRST RESPONDERS WERE AMAZING. THEY ARRIVED AT THE SCENE IN JUST MINUTES AND PROCEEDED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO SAVE ME. THIS IS WHAT HE'S BEEN TOLD 'CAUSE HE'S BEEN OUT. FOR THE CARDIOLOGIST THAT FIRST RECEIVED ME IN CAROLINE EVEN STATED THAT I PROBABLY, PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE SURVIVED HAD IT NOT BEEN PART OF THE LAKE JACKSON EMS THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF OUR EEM S THEY ARE VERY PROFESSIONAL, EFFICIENT, DEDICATED, AND HAVE THE TRAINING TO KNOW JUST WHAT TO DO IN AN EMERGENCY WHILE USING THE STATE OF ART MACHINERY ON BOARD. WHILE ALL WHILE I WAS PRETTY MUCH UNCONSCIOUS, I CAN'T THANK HIM ENOUGH, BUT THE MOST AMAZING PERSON TO HELP SAVE MY LIFE WAS A CITIZEN AMY PATTON. I WAS IN THE PARKING LOT OF A GB WHEN I BUMPED INTO HER, SHE CAME AND CHECKED ON ME AND NOTICED THAT SOMETHING'S WRONG. SHE HAD ASSISTANCE FROM A PACIFIER AND THEY REMOVED ME FROM MY TRUCK THERE ON THE PARKING LOT IN THE POURING RAIN THAT SHE STARTED CPR ON ME. I TRULY BELIEVE THAT GOD WAS WORKING THROUGH AID AND SHE BECAME MY GUARDIAN AGENT AND SAVED MY LIFE. I DON'T KNOW HOW I CAN EVER SHOW MY GRATITUDE AS A SIMPLE THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY LIFE WOULD SEEM SO SHALLOW. I AM FOREVER INDEBTED TO HER, MY PERSONAL GUARDIAN ANGEL. MAY GOD BLESS YOU, AMY. AND ALSO MAY GOD BLESS THE FIRST RESPONDERS OF LAKE JACKSON G. ONLY MY MR. SMITH. SHE'S NOT ONLY JAMES' GUARDIAN ANGEL, BUT SHE IS PART OF MY FAMILY. AND NOW, AND NOW I'D LIKE TO EXTEND LIKE JACKIE EMS . THERE YOU GO. CAN I TAKE THIS? YOU CERTAINLY CAN. [00:20:01] CERTAINLY CAN. WE'LL WORK OUT THE DETAILS. I THINK LIKE JACKSON, YOU SHOULD BE VERY, VERY PROUD OF YOUR BS. AND IF YOU HAVE NOT TAKEN CRI URGE YOU TO DO IT BECAUSE YOU THANK YOU VERY MUCH. A GOOD PORTION OF THAT, UH, WAS TAKEN A COLLECTION AT WHERE I WORK AT DOW. UH, THE PLANT B THERMAL TREATMENT UNIT. SO, UH, FELLOW EMPLOYEES CHIPPED IN. YOU'RE WELCOME. . I'D LIKE TO SAY ONE THING. I WAS A CPR INSTRUCTOR AND I WAS ALWAYS TERRIFIED TO DO CPR. SO IF YOU'RE SCARED, DO IT. SCARED NO MATTER WHAT. DO IT SCARED BECAUSE I WAS SCARED, BUT I KNEW WHAT WAS AT STAKE. SO DO IT SCARED. NO MATTER WHAT IT IS, DO IT. SCARED. OKAY, MAYOR PRO TIM, CAN I ADD ONE QUICK THING WHILE YOU MAKE YOUR WAY DOWN? OF COURSE, PLEASE. SO, I'VE BEEN IN ERNER FOR 15 YEARS AND I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH LAKE JACKSON EMS. AND THIS IS A BROKEN RECORD TO EVERYBODY UP HERE. 'CAUSE I'VE SAID THIS 800 TIMES OVER EVERY BUDGET SEASON. UM, I'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEAL WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT EMS SERVICES. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME LAKE JACKSON. I JUST CANNOT REITERATE TO YOU GUYS HOW GOOD OF A RESOURCE IT IS TO OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY TO HAVE LAKE JACKSON EMS. THEIR TRAINING IS WAY ABOVE WHEN HE SAID ABOVE INDUSTRY STANDARDS, I'M GONNA TELL YOU GUYS IT'S WAY ABOVE INDUSTRY STANDARDS. THESE GUYS DO AN AMAZING JOB DAY IN, DAY OUT, NO MATTER THE WEATHER, NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, UH, I'VE SEEN IT. I'VE NEVER HESITATED TO HAND A SICK PATIENT OVER TO THIS EMS SERVICE, AND I CANNOT SAY THAT ACROSS THE BOARD. SO JUST, WE ARE INCREDIBLY LUCKY TO HAVE THIS SERVICE. UH, DR. SIMS HAS DONE A GREAT JOB, UM, AND THEN THESE GUYS JUST EVERY DAY, YOU GUYS DO A GREAT JOB. AND I ALSO AM ALWAYS SO IMPRESSED WATCHING HOW PD AND FIRE ALL WORK TOGETHER. UH, WHEN, WHEN THINGS ARE HAPPENING BAD, YOU GUYS JUST ARE SEAMLESS AND IT'S ALWAYS A JOY TO WATCH. SO THANK Y'ALL. THANK YOU. ONE, ONE MORE THING. UM, THERE'S A PROCLAMATION HERE. SO I'M MATTHEW BROADUS. BY VIRTUE OF THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN ME AS MAYOR PRO TEM OF THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON, TEXAS DUE HEREBY PROCLAIM NOVEMBER 4TH, 2024 AS AMY PATTON CPR HERO DAY IN THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON. WHEREAS THE SAFETY AND WELLBEING OF ALL CITIZENS IS A PRIORITY FOR THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON IN ACTS OF HEROISM AND SELFISH SELFLESSNESS SERVE AS AN INSPIRATION TO OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY. WHEREAS ON JULY 17TH, 2024, AMY DEMONSTRATED EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE AND SWIFT ACTION BY PERFORMING CPR, THEREBY SAVING THE LIFE OF JAMES YEOMANS YEOMANS. AND WHEREAS THE PROMPT AND SKILLED INTERVENTION OF AMY SERVES AS A SHINING EXAMPLE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF CPR TRAINING IN THE VITAL ROLE IT PLAYS IN SAVING LIVES DURING CRITICAL MOMENTS. AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF LATE JACKSON VALUES AND APPRECIATES THE ACTIONS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO TAKE IT UPON THEMSELVES TO HELP OTHERS IN TIMES OF NEED, EXEMPLIFYING THE SPIRIT OF COMMUNITY AND THE WILLINGNESS TO ACT IN THE FACE OF EMERGENCY. AND WHEREAS THROUGH THE HEROIC EFFORTS OF AMY, A LIFE WAS PRESERVED. AND THIS ACT OF BRAVERY HAS INSPIRED US ALL TO TAKE ACTION, TO BE PREPARED IN THE FACE OF EMERGENCIES. AND NOW THEREFORE, WE THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON DO HEREBY PROCLAIM NOVEMBER 4TH, 2024 AS AMY PATTON'S CPR HERO DAY IN THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON, TEXAS. YEAH, WE GOTTA GET A PICTURE HERE. HERE EVERYBODY. YOU IN THE MIDDLE, MIDDLE FRONT. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH, AMY. JAMES, UH, [00:25:01] MY TEAM, IF WE COULD JUST MEET OUTSIDE BRIEFLY, I'D LIKE TO HAND OUT THOSE CHALLENGE COINS. UH, AND I'D LIKE TO GET SOME PICTURES OF OUR TEAM WITH Y'ALL AND, UH, HOPEFULLY GIVE YOU ALL THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET THEM. YEAH, WE'LL MEET JUST OUTSIDE COUNSEL COUNCIL. MAYOR. MAYOR COUNCIL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE TIME. YEAH, LOVE IT. THANK YOU. OKAY, WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER TWO IN THE PRESENTATIONS. I'M NOT SURE, DO WE HAVE A SEPARATE PRESENTATION FOR THIS ONE RIGHT? JUST THE READING OF THE IS THERE? YES. I'M SORRY. OF COURSE, OF COURSE. RIGHT IN THE FRONT. I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING PREPARED. YEAH, NO WORRIES. BUT, UM, WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT. THIS IS FOR OUR, UM, TOURISM FRIENDLY DESIGNATION FROM THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR'S NEW, UM, PROGRAM. IT'S SIMILAR TO THE, UM, FILM FRIENDLY DESIGNATION THAT THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON ALREADY HAS. AND SO THIS IS ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS BEFORE OUR FINAL INTERVIEW IS TO HAVE A PROCLAMATION, UM, AS A SHOW OF SUPPORT FROM COUNCIL. GREAT. YEAH. TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PROGRAM AND I'M HAPPY TO READ IT. SO, UM, I'M MATTHEW BROADUS, MAYOR PRO TEM BY THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN ME AS THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON, TEXAS. DO HEREBY PROCLAIM, LAKE JACKSON IS A TOUR TOURISM FRIENDLY COMMUNITY, WHEREAS TRAVEL AND TOURISM PROVIDES SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL AND FINANCIAL BENEFITS FOR THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON. AND WHEREAS EVENTS AND TRAVEL FOR LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, SPORTS AND CORPORATE EVENTS ARE ALL KEY COMPONENTS TO LAKE JACKSON'S ECONOMY. AND WHEREAS MANY OF LAKE JACKSON'S HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM BUSINESSES ARE MADE UP OF SMALL BUSINESSES AND ARE PART OF THE FOUNDATION THAT MAKES LAKE JACKSON A UNIQUE AND MEMORABLE TRAVEL DESTINATION. AND WHEREAS VISITORS RELISH THE MANY TOURISM OFFERINGS OF C CENTER, TEXAS, THE LAKE JACKSON HISTORICAL MUSEUM, THE GULF COAST BIRD OBSERVATORY, THE WILDERNESS GOLF COURSE, THE DOW WOODS, THE JACKSON PLANTATION SITE, THE ALDEN DOW OFFICE MUSEUM, MCLEAN PARK, THE CLARION AT BRA SUPPORT COLLEGE, THE NEARBY BEACHES, WILDLIFE REFUGES, AND AS WELL AS NUMEROUS FESTIVAL AND EVENTS. AND NOW THEREFORE, WE THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON DO HEREBY PROCLAIM LAKE JACKSON A TOURISM FRIENDLY COMMUNITY. PICTURES FOR THIS ONE? OR JUST HAND IT UP? , YOU GOOD? I'M GONNA COME BACK WHEN WE GET THE REAL DESTINATION. LOVE IT. LOVE IT. WE'LL SEE YOU HERE. THANK YOU EITHER. OKAY. PRESENTATION NUMBER THREE, THE BRAESWOOD LADY BUCKS WATER POLO STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM. WOOHOO. WOO WOO. MAYOR PRO TIM. BOARD MEMBERS MR. MANUP DO AND ALL OF OUR GUESTS IT. OH, BUSTER, OF COURSE. IT IS SUCH A PLEASURE TO BE HERE TONIGHT TO INTRODUCE THESE LOVELY LADIES TO YOU AND THEIR COACHES. THIS IS THE THIRD YEAR OF UIL WATER POLO BOYS AND GIRLS. TWO YEARS AGO, IF YOU MAY REMEMBER, WE WERE HERE. OUR BOYS HAD ONE STATE, AND OUR GIRLS WERE RUNNER UP. WELL, NOW I'M HAPPY TO TELL YOU THAT OUR LADY BUCKS TOOK FIRST PLACE, THE END OF OCTOBER IN THE STATE OF TEXAS. THEY ARE NUMBER ONE LADY BUCKS. STAND PLEASE. I SEE OVER THERE WE HAVE OUR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, COACH DAY ZELLER. THANK YOU FOR COMING. UM, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A PARADE NOVEMBER 17TH FOR OUR LADY BUCKS. THAT'S A SUNDAY, JUST AS WE DID A COUPLE YEARS AGO FOR OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. AND I HAVE THREE MAPS BECAUSE I'M GOING TO ASK A HUGE FAVOR OF THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON . BECAUSE I'M CARLA CHRISTMAN, AND THAT'S WHAT I CAN DO. YEAH. THAT'S WHY THEY SEND ME TO BEG. UM, WE NEED DIXIE DRIVE A BIT OF IT BLOCKED SO THAT OUR KIDDOS CAN SAFELY LEAVE FROM THE BACK OF BRA WOODS ROAD, COME AROUND DIXIE DRIVE, THEN GO DOWN BRAESWOOD DRIVE LOOP AROUND OUR, UM, TW LOOT, AND THEN COME BACK AND END UP AT THE, UM, AUDITORIUM OF THE NEW BRASSWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, WHERE WE WILL AT AS SOON AS THE PEP PELLI IS OVER, WE WILL HAVE A PRESENTATION IN THE AUDITORIUM ON THE 17TH. AND WE'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU ALL TO THE PARADE. AND WE'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU ALL TO THE PRESENTATION. AND IF YOU COME TO THE PRESENTATION, I CAN PROMISE YOU, I'LL SAY YOUR NAMES . I WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO INTRODUCE YOU. SO I, I WILL LEAVE THESE MAPS SO THAT YOU CAN LOOK AT IT AND SHARE IT WITH YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WHOMEVER COULD POSSIBLY HELP US AND SEND ME THAT WAY. I'D ALSO LIKE TO SAY RIGHT NOW, OUR LADY BUCKS ARE NUMBER THREE IN THE UNITED STATES. [00:30:01] FOUR GIRLS WATER POLO. WOW. BUT I'M GONNA BE PERFECTLY HONEST WITH YOU, IN OUR HEARTS, THEY ARE NUMBER ONE ACROSS THE WORLD. AM I RIGHT? YES. YES. I'M TELLING YOU. WOO. THESE LADIES, THEY LOST JUST TWO GAMES, TWO MATCHES THIS YEAR TO FOSTER. THE AMAZING THING IS THEY MET FOSTER IN THE STATE FINALS AND FOSTER HAD THE ONE UP, SO TO SPEAK, OR TWO UP. THE LADY BUCKS IN DOUBLE OT CAME BACK AND WON AND THEY WON STATE AND THEY TOOK IT BACK FROM FOSTER, WHICH THEY RIGHTLY DESERVE. Y'ALL RIGHTLY DESERVE IT. LADIES, YOU FOUGHT HARD, VERY HARD. LOVE IT. MALLORY. WHERE'S MALLORY? COME ON UP. COME ON UP. COME ON UP. THIS IS MALLORY KESSLER. MALLORY, NOT ONLY, WELL FIRST OF ALL, WHEN THE GAME ENDED, SHE, WHEN THE MATCH ENDED, SHE WAS KIND OF THERE WITH THE BALL WAITING AND HER TEAMMATES WERE LIKE, IT'S OVER. IT'S OVER. AND WOO-HOO. BUT MALLORY'S THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER FOR THE STATE OF TEXAS. WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT JUST IN OUR HEARTS, WE'RE TALKING FOR THE ENTIRE STATE. . SHE CERTAINLY IS IN OUR HEART, BUT ALSO FOR THE STATE OF TEXAS. CONGRATULATIONS, GIGI. WHERE? WHERE'S GIGI? COME ON UP. GIGI. GIGI ALSO MADE THE STATE TOURNAMENT TEAM, WHICH IS VERY IMPRESSIVE BECAUSE THERE ARE ONLY SEVEN PLAYERS THAT MAKE THE STATE TEAM AND GIGI AND MALLORY. AND AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO ASK HOPE TO COME UP HOPE. AM I RIGHT? YOU'RE, YOU'RE A SOPHOMORE? YEAH, SHE'S A SOPHOMORE, Y'ALL. AND SHE MADE THE STATE TOURNAMENT TEAM AS WELL. WOW. SO THREE OF THOSE SEVEN BELONG TO BRAESWOOD HIGH SCHOOL AND BISD. AND NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF THEIR PARENTS WHO ARE THEIR BIGGEST FANS. AND WITHOUT THE COACHING OF TWO REAL LEADERS. FIRST, KYLE, WOULD YOU PLEASE STAND THE ASSISTANT COACH AS HE WAS TWO YEARS AGO AND LAST YEAR HE'S BACK. AND THEN COACH ROBERT BROWN, WHO HOLDS A PLACE IN MY HEART, DEAR PLACE, WHAT LEADERSHIP THESE TWO MEN PROVIDED THESE LADIES IN SUPPORT. OFTENTIMES WE, WE HEAR THOSE STORIES OF COACHES AND SCREAMING AND ALL. THAT'S NOT THESE GENTLEMEN, ENCOURAGEMENT, CHEERING, BEING ALL IN AND CARING WITH ALL THEIR HEARTS. THEIR PASSION SETS THE STANDARD NOT ONLY IN OUR DISTRICT, BUT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AND THE UNITED STATES. THEY SET THE STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE IN COACHING. GENTLEMEN, YOU ARE OUTSTANDING. OUTSTANDING. AGAIN, I WANNA REMIND YOU, ONLY SEVEN PLAYERS ARE OUT THERE AT ANY GIVEN TIME FROM OUR TEAM. BUT IF YOU'LL LOOK AT ALL THESE LADIES, WHEN I CALL YOUR NAMES, LADIES, COME ON UP. OKAY. WE HAVE ALLIE, COME ON UP. ALLY MALLORY'S HERE ALREADY. LET'S SEE. UM, JC CAN'T BE HERE. SHE'S AT FFA MULTI-TALENTED KIDDOS DOING LOTS OF THINGS IN OUR DISTRICT. AND WE ALSO SADLY HAVE, UH, KENDALL DANE, WHO'S OUT ILL AND WE HAVE SARAH. WE'RE SARAH. COME ON UP. SARAH. LEXI, ANNA. COME ON UP. EMMA NEXT. EMMA. YEAH. AND THEN WE HAVE WHEW, SOPHIA. OKAY. SCOOTING DOWN. SCOOTING DOWN. OKAY. OKAY. GO, GO. THANKS. THANKS MALL. ALRIGHT. UH, LET'S SEE. WE HAVE LEXI, DID I ALREADY CALL LEXI? OKAY, GOOD. MAKING SURE. OKAY. THEN WE HAVE, UM, THERESA, LARISSA, EMERSON MONTGOMERY, WHO'S RELATED TO SOMEBODY HERE. . UM, MICHELLE. AVA, LUCY. WHERE'S COOPER? COOPER DANE SISTER WAS ILL. YEAH. OKAY. AND KESSLEY. ALRIGHT, HERE YOU GO. THIS IS YOUR 2024 STATE CHAMPION LADY BUCK [00:35:01] WATER POLO TEAM. WOO. AND I WANNA SAY THAT COACH BROWN, COME ON UP. I WANNA SAY THAT SUPERINTENDENT MASSEY WISHES HE COULD HAVE BEEN HERE. UNFORTUNATELY, I JUST CALLED LAST WEEK AND WE GOT THIS BALL GOING AND I'M SO GRATEFUL THAT YOU GUYS ALLOWED US TO BE ON YOUR AGENDA TONIGHT. AND I JUST WANNA SAY COACH BROWN ON BEHALF OF MR. MASSEY, THE SCHOOL BOARD. AND I THINK MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM, WOW, WE ARE AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING. THE GIRLS ARE AMAZING AND BOTH COACHES ARE AMAZING. PARENTS ARE AMAZING. VERY GOOD. GREAT JOB. YEAH, I AGREE. AND MATT, YEAH, THIS, THIS TEAM, ONE OF MY FORMER STUDENTS. YEAH, MY, YEAH, EXACTLY. UM, LIKE I SAID, I'M RELATED TO ONE. I'VE KNOWN MALLORY SINCE THE DAY SHE WAS BORN. HER, HER PARENTS. AND I GO BACK ALL THE WAY TO B WOOD. UH, WE PROBABLY ALL HAD YOU TOGETHER IN THE SAME CLASS, WHICH WE'RE SORRY FOR THAT, BUT , UM, YEAH, I HAVE A PROCLAMATION FOR Y'ALL AS WELL. I'M GONNA READ IT FROM HERE. I'M MATTHEW BROADUS BY VIRTUE OF THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN ME AS MAYOR PRO TEM OF THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON, TEXAS. DUE HEREBY PROCLAIM NOVEMBER 4TH, 2024 AS BRAESWOOD LADY BUCCANEER GIRLS WATER POLO TEAM DAY. WHEREAS THE BRAESWOOD LADY BUCCANEER GIRLS WATER POLO TEAM WON THE UNIVERSITY OF INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE WATER POLO STATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS ON OCTOBER 26TH, 2024, DOMINATING THEIR OPPONENTS ALL SEASON, EARNING AN OUTSTANDING RECORD OF 24 WINS AND FOUR LOSSES. AND WHEREAS THE BRAESWOOD LADY BUCCANEER GIRLS WATER POLO TEAM LED BY HEAD COACH ROBERT BROWN AND HIS ASSISTANT COACH HANER, UH, ACHIEVED GREAT SUCCESS BY PLAYING AGGRESSIVE, DISCIPLINED, AND FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND WATER POLO THROUGHOUT THE 2024 SEASON. AND WHEREAS THE BRAESWOOD BUCCANEER GIRLS WATER POLO TEAM IS MADE UP OF MANY TALENTED AND DIVERSE YOUNG WOMEN WHO HAVE SELFLESSLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS THAT THE LADY BUCCANEERS HAVE ACHIEVED. AND WHEREAS THE TITLE MARKS THE FIRST EVER BRAESWOOD LADY BUCCANEER GIRLS WATER POLO TEAM, UIL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM IN THE SCHOOL'S HISTORY. AND WHEREAS OVER THE PAST 2024 SEASON, THROUGH THE RIGORS OF ACADEMICS AND DISCIPLINE TO PRACTICE AND PLAY WITH SUBSTANTIAL SUPPORTERS OF THE BRASSWOOD LADY BUCCANEERS GIRLS WATER POLO TEAM, INCLUDING COACHES, PARENTS, EDUCATORS, TRAINERS, FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES PERSEVERED, EACH OF WHOM HAS HELPED REACH THIS HISTORIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR THE SCHOOL AND FOR THE BRAZOSPORT INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, UNIFYING OUR COMMUNITY AND BRINGING HONOR TO THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON. NOW THEREFORE, WE THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON DO HEREBY PROCLAIM NOVEMBER 4TH, 2024 AS BRAESWOOD LADY BUCCANEER GIRLS WATER POLO TEAM DAY IN THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON. WOO WOO. TEXAS. I WOULD LIKE TO DO A PHOTO. YES, ABSOLUTELY. I WOULD WANNA DO A PHOTO LIKE I WOULD LIKE ALL OF YOU TO STAND. YEAH. SO Y'ALL COULD BE IN THE PHOTO AND I CAN BE IN FRONT. BUT I REALLY WOULD LIKE ALL OF YOU RUN, IF Y'ALL DON'T MIND. I WOULD LOVE THAT. DO I THIS OVER? YEAH. THIS IS YOURS. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU BEING I'M USUALLY ON SIDE. MAKE SURE YOU SEE EVERYONE'S FACE. OH, SCOOT. YEAH. THERE YOU GO. ARE YOU STANDING HERE? NO, THIS IS NOT BE ONE. COACH, WOULD YOU PLEASE COME [00:40:07] THOUGHT BEST? HE JUST THOUGHT WE'RE GOOD. EVERYBODY SAY WE'RE NUMBER ONE? YEAH. THANK YOU. NOW IT LOOKS LIKE A CITY COUNCIL. YEAH. , IS IT TIME FOR ME TO PRESENT FOR THE REGULAR AGENDA? LOVE IT. THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY. CHERRY. HE WAS TRYING TO ESCAPE NEXT BLOCK WITH CROWN. I'M GONNA HAVE TO WAIT TILL AFTER I FINISH READING TO EAT MY HERSHEY BAR. OKAY, WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE DECLARATION OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. THIS IS A TIME WHERE COUNSEL CAN DECLARE CONFLICT OF INTEREST THAT THEY HAVE OR THINK THEY MIGHT HAVE BEFORE WE GET INTO BUSINESS. ANYTHING TO DECLARE? HEARING NONE. WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT [CONSENT AGENDA] AGENDA, WHICH I HAVE TO READ ALL 11 OF AFTER THREE PROCLAMATIONS. I'M GONNA NEED A DRINK OF WATER. OKAY. CONSENT AGENDA ITEM ONE. APPROVAL OF MINUTES. OCTOBER 21ST, 2024. ITEM TWO, APPROVE. ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 2 9 1 TO REZONE THE 3.45 ACRE 3 33 FM 2000 OH FOUR FAMILY FITNESS TRACK FROM A B ONE NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS TO B THREE INSTITUTIONAL USE FOR THE NEW HOPE CHURCH SITE. SECOND READING. ITEM THREE. APPROVE A CONTRACT WITH BISD FOR TWO BUS DRIVERS TO TRANSPORT PATRONS FROM THE RECREATION CENTER TO THE LAKE JACKSON POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS. CITY OF LAKE JACKSON WILL PAY THE HOURLY RATE FOR THE BUS DRIVER. CONSENT TO AGENDA ITEM FOUR, APPROVE RESOLUTION NUMBER 2 4 9 6 6 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO AMEND THE FISCAL YEAR 24 25 BUDGET TO REFLECT REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE IN THE AMOUNT OF $242,259. THE GRANT WAS FROM THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR WITH NO MATCHING FUNDS FOR VEHICLE BARRICADE. STILL BARRIERS AND TRAILERS FOR THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON POLICE DEPARTMENT. ITEM FIVE, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO PURCHASE THE VEHICLE BARRIERS BARRIER DROP DECK TRAILER AND ACCESSORIES FROM MERIDIAN RAPID DEFENSE GROUP SALES LLC IN THE AMOUNT OF $181,666 36 CENTS UNDER THE GSA ADVANTAGE PROGRAM FUNDING IS AVAILABLE FROM GRANT NUMBER 5 2 4 7 9 0 1. ITEM SIX, RATIFY PAYMENT TO ICS CONTRACTORS ELECTRICAL DIVISION FOR EMERGENCY REPAIR WORK AT THE WATER AND WASTEWATER FACILITIES IN THE AMOUNT OF $78,500 AS BUDGETED. NUMBER SEVEN, ACCEPT THE REMOVAL OF YOUTH ADVISORY COMMISSION MEMBER CADENCE HUBER. NUMBER EIGHT, APPOINT CORA ALBERON AS A NEW YOUTH ADVISORY COMMISSION MEMBER ON ITEM NINE. AUTHORIZED CITY MANAGER TO PURCHASE WATER METERS AND SMART POINTS FROM AQUA METRIC IN THE AMOUNT OF $98,806 AND 50 CENTS UNDER HGAC BILLBOARD CONTRACT AS BUDGETED. ITEM 10, ADOPT A SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY PROHIBITING THE INSTALLATION OF TIKTOK ON ANY CITY OWNED DEVICE AS REQUIRED BY SENATE BILL 1 8 9 3. ITEM NUMBER 11, APPROVE AND INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF FREEPORT FOR CDL TRAINING. I WILL ACCEPT A MOTION ON THE CONSENT AGENDA OR REQUEST TO REMOVE ANYTHING TO THE REGULAR MAYOR. I MOVE FOR APPROVAL ONE THROUGH 11 ON, UH, I WOULD, I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST NUMBER ITEM NUMBER FIVE. YOU CONSENT, SPEAK UP. OKAY. WE WILL REMOVE ITEM NUMBER FIVE. UM, SO WITH THAT MR. BUELL, ALRIGHT, YOU HAVE A MOTION ON THE OTHERS FOR APPROVAL? ITEM ONE THROUGH 11 EXCEPT ITEM FIVE FOR APPROVAL. I HAVE A MOTION. DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. [00:45:01] UH, ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE REGULAR AGENDA. [5. Authorizing the City Manager to purchase the Vehicle Barriers, Barrier Drop Deck trailer, and accessories from Meridian Rapid Defense Group Sales LLC in the amount of $181,666.36 under the GSA Advantage program. Funding is available from grant # 5247901.] WE'LL START WITH ITEM CALL IT ZERO. UM, CONSENT AGENDA. ITEM FIVE, AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO PURCHASE VEHICLE BEARERS BARRIERS, BARRIER DROP DECK TRAILER AND ACCESSORIES FROM MERIDIAN RAPID DEFENSE GROUP SALES LLC AND THE AMOUNT OF 180 1 6 6 6 0.36 UNDER THE GSA ADVANTAGE PROGRAM FUNDING AVAILABLE FROM GRANT NUMBER 5 2 4 7 9 0 1. MR. SHANYA. SO, UH, I'M STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THAT I HAD THIS QUESTION EARLIER TODAY AND I'M STILL NOT CLEAR IN MY MIND THAT THIS, UH, 181,000 600, 6 36 PART OF THE NUMBER FOUR BECAUSE WE ARE PROVING REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE ON THE AMOUNT OF 242,259. SO MY ASSUMPTION WAS THIS AMOUNT, 180 1 IS INCLUDED IN THAT 2 42. IT IS. SO THE 242 IS COMING IN. THAT'S THE GRANT. WAIT, WHAT? REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE IN THE AMOUNT. SO WE APPROVING THE EXPENDITURE ALONG WITH THE, SO WHY DO WE HAVE TWO ITEMS? BUDGET. SO THE, THE FIRST ONE IS REALLY, IT'S AMENDING THE BUDGET. IT'S REALLY, IT'S AMENDING THE BUDGET. YOU'RE AMENDING THE BUDGET FOR REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE APPROVING AMENDING THE BUDGET FOR REVENUE TO COME IN AND THE EXPENDITURE TO GO OUT. THE SECOND ITEM IS THE ACTUAL EXPENDITURE, BUT IT'S ONLY ONE EXPENDITURE. IT'S FOR THE VEHICLE BARRIERS IN THE TRAILER. WE WILL BE COMING BACK WITH A SECOND EXPENDITURE OF, UH, OR TWO, UH, OF PEDESTRIAN, UH, BARRIERS. AND IN THE END WE'LL SPEND ALL OF THE GRANT, ALL OF THE GRANT FUNDS. 81. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT 180 1 IS PART OF THE TWO. THE, YEAH, THE, THE 2 42 IS THE REVENUE. MM-HMM. . AND THE 180 1 IS A, AN EXPEN IS AN EXPENDITURE, BUT WHEN WE, WE, IT'S PROBABLY, UH, JUST KIND OF THE WORDING'S ODD, IT JUST CONFUSING BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE, WHEN YOU'RE AMENDING THE BUDGET, WE'RE WE'RE SAYING WE'RE, WE'RE AMENDING THE BUDGET FOR BOTH TO OCCUR, REVENUES TO COME IN AND EXPENDITURES TO GO OUT. RAILROAD IT. BUT THE, THE I THE FOUR, THE ITEM FOUR IS THE, JUST THE BUDGET AMENDMENT SECTION. IT REALLY, AND ITEM FIVE IS THE AUTHORITY TO SPEND THE MONEY YEAH. THE EXPENDITURE. YEAH. WE, WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE CHANGED THE WORDING. UM, UM, BUT, UH, THAT, THAT'S FINE. I, I, I'M, I'M OKAY WITH OKAY, GREAT. UM, IN THAT CASE THEN I'LL TAKE A MOTION ON CONSENT TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FIVE OR REGULAR ITEM ZERO. YEAH. MOVE THAT WE, UH, AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO PURCHASE THE VEHICLE BARRIER BARRIER DROP DECK TRAILER AND ASSESS READ FROM RAPID MERIDIAN RAPID DEFENSE GROUP SALES LLC IN THE AMOUNT OF 1 1 6 30 6 CENTS UNDER THE GSA ADVANTAGE PROGRAM. FUNDING IS AVAILABLE TO GRANT NUMBER 5 4 7 9. I HAVE, I HEARD A SECOND OVER HERE. IS THAT TRUE? YES. OKAY. SECOND BY MR. BAKER. ANY MORE DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. REGULAR [1. Discuss amending Ch. 10 Animals of the Lake Jackson Code of Ordinances to prevent cats from running at large – Sherri Russell] AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE, DISCUSS AMENDING CHAPTER 10 ANIMALS OF THE LAKE JACKSON CODE OF ORDINANCES TO PREVENT CATS FROM RUNNING AT LARGE, MS. RUSSELL. OKAY. SO, UM, WHAT I DID, IF YOU CAN'T TELL, IS THE EASIEST THING, UH, CATS AND DOGS ARE NOW EQUAL UNDER OUR ORDINANCE. I TOOK OUT ALL THEIR EXCEPTIONS. THEY CAN'T RUN AT LARGE. THEY CAN'T DAMAGE YOUR PROPERTY. THEY CAN'T ATTACK AND KILL OTHER ANIMALS. BUT, UM, THAT ONE IS, UNLESS YOU LET YOUR GUINEA PIGS RUN LOOSE, PROBABLY NOT GONNA BE A PROBLEM. AND, AND SO YEAH, I JUST THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS THE SIMPLEST WAY TO DO IT RATHER THAN DRAFTING NEW LANGUAGE. SO WHAT KIND OF ENFORCEMENT DO WE HAVE ON THAT? OH, HUMANE. SAME FOR DOGS. MM-HMM. HUMANE TRAPS. UM, WHAT, I'M SORRY. DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION? HUMANE TRAPS OR OTHER PEOPLE TRAP CATS AND IF THEY KNOW WHO THE CAT BELONGS TO, THEY CAN HAVE A CITATION, BUT IF THEY DON'T, THEY END UP AT THE SHELTER THAT'S, YEAH. THE PROBLEM IS IDENTIFYING THE CAT THAT'S DONE THE DAMAGE TO, TO KNOW THAT IT'S THAT CAT. AND I THINK ALL THIS DOES, DOES THIS GIVE ANIMAL CONTROL THE TOOL THAT IF I VIDEO MY NEIGHBOR'S CAT LEAVING THEIR HOUSE COMING OVER AND TEARING UP A PATIO FURNITURE, IT JUST GIVES ANIMAL CONTROL A TOOL TO SAY YOU CAN'T LET YOUR ANIMAL DO THAT. RIGHT. THAT IS ALL RIGHT. THEY CAN GIVE THEM A CITATION. NOBODY'S COMING AFTER ANYBODY'S CATS. NOBODY'S, NO, I MEAN, WE KNOW CATS ARE CATS. RIGHT. UNLESS THEY DO IT A LOT. AND THEN WE COULD, UH, HAVE A NUISANCE HEARING. THE JUDGE COULD HAVE A NUISANCE HEARING. [00:50:01] UM, BUT IF IT IS JUST ONE TIME AND THEY SOLVE THE PROBLEM, WE'RE NOT COMING AFTER THE PASS. YEAH. OKAY. IF NEED TO COME UP FRONT. YEAH. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK PLEASE? UH, NAME AND ADDRESS IN THE MICROPHONE FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE. OKAY. UM, MARILYN COPE, 1 0 7 MESQUITE. MM-HMM. . SO IF YOU'RE NOT COMING AFTER THE CATS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I MEAN, IS IT JUST SO WE HAD NEW THING OR WE HAD A NO, NO, NO, NOT AT ALL. WE HAD A CITIZEN WHO CAME TO THE LAST MEETING AND HER NEIGHBOR WAS FEEDING ALL THE CATS. AND SHE HAD, IT HAD DONE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO HER VEHICLE. SHE KNEW WHICH CAT HAD DONE IT. IT HAD TORN UP TWO SETS OF PATIO FURNITURE. AND THERE IS NOTHING OUR, WE HAVE NO TOOL FOR ANIMAL CONTROL TO GO TO THE NEIGHBOR AND SAY, YOUR CAT CAN'T RUN AT LARGE. THAT IS ALL BECAUSE SOMEBODY CHOOSES TO OWN A CAT. YEAH. DOES NOT ALLOW THEIR CHOICE TO DESTROY SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY. WELL, THREE, THREE CATS CHOSE ME. YEAH. AND THEY HAD 11 KITTENS IN THEIR, IN MY BACKYARD, AND I GOT 'EM ALL FIXED. WE APPRECIATE THAT. AND ALL THE KITTIES GOT ADOPTED. YEAH. AND THEN THE PARENTS IN THE SITUATION DECIDED THEY LIKE MY BACKYARD. SO THEY HAVE INSULATED HOUSES BACK THERE AND THEY HAVE A HEATING PAD AND THEY COME HOME TO EAT AND THEY HAVEN'T DESTROYED ANYTHING AT MY HOUSE. BUT NOBODY'S COMING AFTER YOUR CAT. WELL, MY, YOU KNOW, I'M THINKING THAT TNRI MEAN, I SAW THAT MENTION. MM-HMM. . THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. BUT IT'S EXPENSIVE. IT IS. AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS IN OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH SPCA IS THE S-P-C-A-A LOT OF TIMES DEALS WITH THE PROBLEM ON THE BACK END OF WHAT DO WE DO WITH ALL THESE ANIMALS THAT ARE HERE? YEAH. AND IT GETS OVERWHELMING. AND THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IS ADDRESS THE PROBLEM ON THE FRONT END. YEAH. IF EVERYBODY WOULD DO WHAT YOU'RE DOING YEAH. AND GET YOUR ANIMALS PAID. THERE'S NO TELLING HOW MANY I STOP MY HUSBAND IN MY BACKYARD. YEAH. MY HUSBAND JUST FOUND ONE IN THE ENGINE OF A VEHICLE HE WAS WORKING ON. OH YEAH. IT'S BEEN SPAYED NEUTERED SHOTS. IT'S, IT'S THE MOST SPOILED RANDOM CAT EVER NOW. YEAH. UM, AND SO ALL THIS DOES IS IN VERY LIMITED CASES GIVES THE ANIMAL CONTROL A TOOL TO BE ABLE TO SAY YOUR CHOICE TO HAVE OR FEED OR TO HOUSE A CAT. DOESN'T, DOESN'T MEAN YOUR CHOICE DOESN'T GET TO AFFECT YOUR NEIGHBOR. THAT'S IT. . GOD, I WISH WE COULD GET THROUGH TO THE CATS. I KNOW. I MEAN, IF I COULD SAY THIS IS YOUR DOMAIN. YEAH. WELL, I MEAN, I'VE, I'VE BEEN A CAT OWNER. I HAD TWO CATS FOR ALMOST 17 YEARS. THEY DIDN'T LEAVE MY HOUSE. I MEAN, THEY, THEY WERE INDOOR CATS AND HAD SHOTS AND, YOU KNOW, ALL THE STUFF. BUT YEAH. SO THIS IS, THIS IS NOT AS BIG A DEAL. I THINK AS SOME PEOPLE MAY FEEL LIKE IT IS. MY CONCERN IS IF THE CITY STARTS PICKING UP THE CATS, THEY FIND MM-HMM. THEN WE DON'T HAVE THE MANPOWER. LISTEN, EUTHANIZE THEM. YEAH. WE DON'T HAVE THE MANPOWER. WE DON'T HAVE THE INCLINATION TO GO RANDOMLY LOOKING FOR CATS. YEAH. WE DON'T, THAT'S NOT THE INTENTION IN ANY FORM OR FASHION. RIGHT. THIS IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER 25 CITIES THAT WE HAD THE INFORMATION ON AT THE LAST MEETING THAT ALSO INCLUDE CATS. YEAH. AND IN THEIR ORDINANCES WE'RE ONLY SURPRISINGLY ONE OF THE ONES THAT DID NOT, UM, ALMOST EVERY CITY AROUND US HAS SOMETHING THAT ADDRESSES, THAT GIVES ANIMAL CONTROL A TOOL IN THE VERY RARE INSTANCES THAT IT'S NEEDED. THAT IS ALL JUST A LITTLE GUIDANCE IF YOU EVER HAVE TO HAVE IT PICKED UP. PARDON? YOU GIVE 'EM A LITTLE GUIDANCE TO WHAT TO DO IF THEY NEED TO GO OUT AND PICK SOMETHING UP. YEAH. IT WOULD BE GREAT IF ALL THE CITIZENS WOULD JUST TAKE CARE OF THEIR ANIMALS AND GET 'EM SPAYED AND NEUTERED AND DO THE RIGHT THING. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, AS EVIDENCED BY THE LADY WHO, SHE WAS VERY UPSET WHEN SHE CAME UP HERE. YEAH. IT JUST, UM, IT, YOU KNOW, YOU TRY TO BALANCE THOSE TWO THINGS, BUT NOBODY'S COMING TO LOOK FOR EVERYBODY'S CATS. MY THOUGHT WAS IF, IF YOU GUYS HAVE TO START PICKING 'EM UP, IF EVERYBODY STARTS GETTING VOCAL YEAH. THEN CITY DOESN'T HAVE, THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE THE KITTIES LONG ENOUGH BEFORE THEY GET SENT TO THE SPCA THAT IS SO OVERWHELMED RIGHT NOW. RIGHT. I MEAN, I HAVE FOSTER KITTENS ALMOST ALL THE TIME. YEAH. . I DON'T RIGHT NOW. THAT'S WHY I WAS ABLE TO GET OUTTA THE HOUSE NOW. BUT YEAH. THIS IS NOT A BIG CHANGE [00:55:01] TO OUR ORDINANCE AT ALL. YEAH. BUT WE APPRECIATE YOU COMING. IF I THOUGHT MY CATS WOULD STAY IN THE YARD WHEN I TALK, IF I THOUGHT THEY WOULD DO ANYTHING THAT I TELL 'EM TO DO. YEAH. AND THEN, I MEAN, IF YOUR NEIGHBORS AREN'T COMPLAINING, IT'S REALLY JUST A MOOT ISSUE. YEAH. ONE OF MY NEIGHBORS WAS UP HERE AND I SAID, DO WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MY CAT ? HE GOES, NO, WE'RE FINE. WE FIND 'EM VERY AMUSING. THANK YOU . AND THEY SERVE A PURPOSE. I MEAN, YOU CAN'T ARGUE THAT FACT EITHER. JUST WITHIN OUR CITY THEY SERVE A PURPOSE OF, YOU KNOW, I'D RATHER HAVE CATS AND RATS, YOU KNOW? MM-HMM. . SO, GOD, THEY DON'T BRING ME ANY OF THOSE. THAT JUST MEANS THEY LOVE YOU . AND THEY DON'T SCARE THE ARMADILLO THAT COMES IN MY BACKYARD AND THEY DON'T SCARE THE POSSUMS. AND THEY'RE BABIES THAT COME IN MY BACKYARD, WHICH WHEN THERE'S FADING NEUTERED, A LOT OF TIMES YOU, YOU DO GET RID OF A LOT OF THOSE PROBLEMS. YEAH. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT MORE WELL BEHAVED. WELL, ONE OF THE DADDIES RETIRED AND ONE OF MY COMMUNITY CATS INVITED IT TO LIVE WITH US. SO YEAH. IT'S A CIRCUS OVER THERE, . THANK YOU. OKAY. I'M VALERIE JAMES AT 2 0 7 VAN WINKLE. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED HUMANS CALLING THEIR ON THEIR NEIGHBOR'S CATS AND TRYING TO GET THEM TAKEN JUST TO BE HARASSING? DO WHAT NOW? UH, NEIGHBORS TRYING TO CALL ON THEIR NEIGHBOR'S CATS AND THEN HARASSING THEM BY DOING THAT. TAKING THE CATS IN. WE HAVE TO HAVE SHOW PHYSICAL DAMAGE TO THEIR PROPERTY REALLY TO EVEN CONSIDER ANY ACTION. AND I THINK, I THINK MAYBE CHIEF COULD ANSWER THAT QUESTION A LITTLE BIT BETTER. I MEAN, I DON'T THINK THAT COME ON OUT . I I MEAN YOU WOULD HAVE THAT SAME PROBLEM WITH DOGS OR, YOU KNOW, ANY OTHER ANIMAL THAT GETS LOST, LOUD PARTIES OR WHATEVER. THE POLICE WILL SHOW UP TO INVESTIGATE AND WHAT THEY FIND OUT TO BE, WHAT THEY FIND OUT TO BE TRUE AND NOT TRUE. WE'LL, WE'LL RIGHT. DETERMINE AND, AND THIS IS AGAIN, AS WE TALKED LAST TIME, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING UNCOMMON. UH, WE GET CALLS, COMPLAINTS OF, OF ANIMALS, DOGS, CATS, UH, ALL OTHER SORT OF THINGS. BUT, UH, WE DEAL WITH IT IN A ROUTINE WAY. UH, EVEN EVEN CONCERN ABOUT YOUR CAT GETTING PICKED UP. 'CAUSE MAYBE YOUR NEIGHBOR CALLED, UH, IT'S JUST LIKE WITH THE DOG. MM-HMM. . AND I THINK THIS IS A GREAT APPROACH, JUST TREATMENT THE SAME. YOU COULD STILL RECLAIM YOUR CAT IF THAT WAS THE CASE. UH, IN THIS CASE, IF IT WAS STRICTLY RETALIATORY, UH, THAT WOULD BE KIND OF A DIFFERENT ISSUE. BUT USUALLY IF THEY'RE ON SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY AND DOING SOMETHING, THAT'S A REASON WE GET CALLED. UM, I'M NOT REALLY FAMILIAR WITH SOMEONE CALLING JUST BECAUSE, HEY, I'M GONNA HAVE THE POLICE SHOW UP TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT YOUR CATS 'CAUSE YOU HAVE A CAT AND I DON'T LIKE CATS. SO, UH, IT COULD IT HAPPEN? YOU BET. YES. PEOPLE CALL. YES. UH, 'CAUSE THE UGLY SIGNS IN THE ER AND ALL KIND OF STUFF. YEAH. THEY MIGHT NOT LIKE WHO I HAVE, BUT IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS IS YOUR CATS BEING TAKEN CARE OF AND WHAT HAVE YOU, THEN IT WOULD BE JUST LIKE ANY OTHER CALL FOR SERVICE WE HAVE. SO I DO HAVE TWO CATS THAT ARE FIXED. IN FACT, WHEN I, WHEN I MOVED HERE, THEY, UM, I FOUND ONE, I WENT AND GOT ONE FROM THE SPCA AND THEN I FOUND ANOTHER ONE AND I TOOK IT THERE AND THEY DID, UM, FIX IT FOR ME AND THEN I COULD FOSTER IT. SO THAT'S AN OPTION TOO THAT PEOPLE CAN DO. BUT I JUST DON'T, I GOTTA TELL YOU, I'M NOT A LIBERTARIAN, I'M A CONSERVATIVE, BUT ON THE LIBERTARIAN SIDE ON THIS, I LIKE THE IDEA OF NOT HAVING THE CITY INVOLVED. AND, AND, AND I AM PRETTY HAPPY WITH LAKE JACKSON. I'M NOT FROM THIS AREA. I'VE LIVED HERE 10 YEARS. PRETTY HAPPY WITH IT. BUT I'D LIKE WHAT YOU HAVE, UH, AS FAR AS SERVICES, BUT I DON'T WANNA ENCROACH ON OUR LIBERTIES, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. WELL, AND IT DOESN'T REALLY, IT ACTUALLY JUST TREATS EVERY, EVERYTHING THE SAME. AND IT'S ACTUALLY MUCH MORE, 'CAUSE I'D PROBABLY LEAN MORE YOUR DIRECTION AS WELL. UH, I DON'T LIKE A LOT OF GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT. AND YOU, YOU WOULD HOPE THAT PEOPLE JUST HAVE SOME SENSE AND DO THE RIGHT THING. UM, IT'S NOT ALWAYS EXPERIENCE. I HAVE, I ACTUALLY HAVE EXPERIENCED, AND I WON'T TELL YOU HOW OR WHAT YEAH. WHERE PEOPLE ARE CALLING THE POLICE FOR THINGS THAT ARE JUST TO GET, I MEAN, I HAVE CONFIDENCE AND SO I KNOW THAT IT HAPPENS. THIS IS WHY I'M SAYING IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE ANOTHER. I DO, I DO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN OUR TOOL BAG OF THOSE NARCISSISTIC TYPE PEOPLE THAT WOULD DO THAT, YOU KNOW. BUT I DO ALSO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN OUR PD TO HAVE SOME COMMON SENSE. AND WHEN THEY'RE DEALING WITH THESE AND THEY'RE PRETTY GOOD AT SORTING OUT, YOU KNOW, OKAY, THIS IS A RETALIATORY THING, OR THIS IS REALLY AN ISSUE, [01:00:01] YOU KNOW, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE PRETTY WELL EXPERIENCED AT THAT. I'M JUST GONNA LET IT BE ON RECORD. I DON'T LIKE THE IDEA OF ADDING MORE LOSS. WELL, IT DOESN'T, IT JUST, IT ACTUALLY DECREASES THE, IT ACTUALLY NUMBER WORSE. IT'S DECREASING THE ADDS SUBORDINATE, BUT IT ADDS CATS ON WHERE IT WASN'T. RIGHT. SO IT DOES, IF EVERYBODY TAKES CARE OF THE CATS, IT'S NOT A PROBLEM. OKAY. ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS AGENDA ITEM? IF NOT, COUNSEL ANY, UM, MORE DISCUSSION ON OUR END? IF NOT, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. WHERE'S THAT? A I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO ACCEPT ITEM ONE AS PRESENTED. SECOND. OKAY. I HAVE A MOTION. UH, AND A SECOND. ANY MORE DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE. UH, ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. AND THAT BRINGS US TO [2. Discuss and approve Fiscal Year 2025 Interlocal Agreement with Brazoria County for Road Paving and Drainage Ditch Desilting Projects request – Sal Aguirre] REGULAR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER TWO. DISCUSS AND APPROVE FISCAL YEAR 2025 INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH BRAZORIA COUNTY FOR ROAD PAVING AND DRAINAGE, DITCH DE SILTING PROJECTS. MR. SAL REPORT WHY SAL'S COMING UP AND, AND, UH, EITHER YOUR LAST MEETING OR THE MEETING BEFORE, BEFORE COUNCIL APPROVED THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT, UH, WITH THE COUNTY ANNUALLY. AND THEN WE FOLLOW UP WITH, UH, SUBMISSION OF, UH, PROJECTS LAST YEAR. UH, THE COUNTY CHANGED THEIR STANDARD TO ALSO INCLUDE DITCHES, YOU KNOW, IN, UM, AS A POSSIBILITY OF PROJECT BESIDES RE RE ASPHALTING OF ROADS. SO THE STAFF HAS GONE BACK AND LOOKED. AND THESE ARE THE, UH, THREE PROJECTS THAT RIGHT NOW THEY'RE REC THEY'RE RECOMMENDING, UH, TO COUNCIL TO FOR SUBMISSION TO, UM, TO THE COUNTY IN SOUTH CAN SPEAK ON ANY OF THE THREE PROJECTS? UH, THAT'S CORRECT. UH, THE COUNTY, UH, TWO YEARS AGO DECIDED THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GO BACK TO THEIR, THEIR MISSION, WHICH IS, UH, THE COUNTY ROADS, UH, THAT THEY JUST, UH, THAT THEY JUST STICK TO THEIR, THEIR WORK ON ONLY ROADS AND ON ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH ROADS. BY THAT I MEAN DRAINAGE AND, UH, OF GRADING OF THE DITCHES, WHICH PART OF THE GRADING SYSTEM, UH, IS IN LIEU OF WHAT THEY HAD BEEN DOING. OR THEY HAD BEEN SORT OF FORCED TO DO IT DURING THE, FOR A LONG TIME, WHICH WAS TO FIX OTHER FACILITIES FOR OTHER CITIES THAT WERE NOT IN THE ROAD SYSTEM OR RELATED TO ROADS. SO, UH, THEY DECIDED TWO YEARS AGO TO ACTUALLY START IMPLEMENTING THAT PARTICULAR MISSION AGAIN. AND, UH, THIS IS WHERE WE ARE NOW. THE TYPICALLY WE WOULD, WE WOULD PUT IN ROADS, OUR ROAD, A ROAD IN OUR, IN EITHER IN THEIR SYSTEM OR IN OUR SYSTEM THAT IS ASPHALT. AT THIS TIME, WE DON'T HAVE ANY ROADS LEFT, UH, ON THE ASPHALT SIDE OF THINGS BECAUSE MOST OF 'EM ARE BEING TAKEN CARE OF BY PROJECTS, BY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT, BY THE BOND ISSUE THAT, UH, THAT WAS PASSED AND THAT, UH, IT WAS APPROVED, WHICH IS PRIMARILY THE, UH, SLEEPY HOLLOW ROAD SYSTEM AND ALSO BALAM AND UH, AND, UH, BALAM AND, UH, WILLENBERG. SO THOSE PROJECTS ARE ALREADY, UH, IN THE BOOKS. THEY'RE IN THE DESIGN SITUATION RIGHT NOW. HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE OUT, UH, WITH A PROJECT WITH THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SOMETIME LATER THIS YEAR. AND SOUTHERN OAK WAS RECENTLY DONE. SO THAT'S, THAT'S IN GOOD SHAPE AND, AND RECENTLY, YEAH. DONE WITH SOUTHERN OAK. THE ONLY OTHER PROJECT THAT STAYS THAT'S OUT THERE, PROBABLY IN THE NEAR FUTURE, UH, IF WE START, UH, PUTTING MONEY INTO THAT CIP WOULD BE, UH, THE COUNTY ROAD ITSELF OR OLD ANGLE ROAD, UH, WHICH IS PARTLY IN THE COUNTY AND PARTLY IN OUR SIDE OF THINGS. THAT'S ABOUT THE ONLY REMAINING ASPHALT ROAD THAT I THINK WE MAY BE LOOKING IN. THE, IN THE NEAR FUTURE COUNTY USUALLY TAKES CARE OF THAT ONE. RIGHT. UH, THE COUNTY USUALLY TAKES CARE OF THEIR PORTION. UH, BUT STARTING FROM ABOUT WHERE THE CHURCH IS, UH, ON THE NORTH SIDE OF WILLOW ALL THE WAY DOWN TO, UH, TO OCD, THAT'S OUR SECTION THERE. IN THE PAST WE'VE DONE IN THE LOCALS, THE LAST ONE WE DID PROBABLY, UH, I'M GONNA SAY PROBABLY ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, IS IS IT ONE LANE OF PLANTATION ASPHALT OR WAS, DID WE COME BACK AND CONTACT IT? THAT ONE WAS DONE ALSO LAST YEAR. YES. THE, UH, [01:05:01] ONE LANE OF PLANTATION, WE, WE SLEEPY HOLLOW, THAT'S JUST GONNA BE THE ROAD, RIGHT? THERE'S NO SIDEWALKS OR ANYTHING? NO, JUST THE ROADS. YEAH, JUST THE ASPHALT. WE ARE GONNA BE PUTTING EXTRA EFFORT ON THE SUB BAYS. THIS OR THE SUB, UH, WELL SUB BAYS IN REALITY, BUT THAT'S DEFINITELY IN 25 SOMETIMES. YES. UH, THE, UH, WE ARE IN THE DESIGN, UH, DEAL THERE. AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE'VE, UH, WE'VE DONE, THERE WAS A, UH, PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT PUT OUT THERE BECAUSE WE'RE ASKING, WE'RE LOOKING AT PUTTING IN A BETTER PRODUCT FOR STABILIZATION OF THE BASE THERE. AND WE NEEDED TO GET SOME, SOME OTHER PEOPLE'S OPINION ON THAT PARTICULAR SYSTEM. WE DIDN'T WANT TO JUMP INTO IT WITHOUT, YOU KNOW, LISTENING TO EVERYONE. UH, THEY ALL COME BACK WITH, UH, POSITIVE RESULTS AS FAR AS THAT PARTICULAR APPLICATION OF THIS PARTICULAR MATERIAL. SO WE ARE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING PUTTING IT IN THERE. AND THAT'S WHAT THE ENGINEER THAT WE'VE DESIGNED IS INTO CURBS OR NO CURBS ON THIS SOUTH. UH, IT'LL BE A, WHAT THEY CALL A FLUSH CURB. MM-HMM. PRIMARILY FOR STRUCTURAL SO THAT THE PAVEMENT DOESN'T OR MELT, THE EDGES DON'T START UNRAVELING TOWARDS THE SIDE THERE. SO IT'S GONNA BE A FLAT TOPIC CURVE. IT'S NOT GONNA BE A PROFILE CURVE. OKAY. SO JUST TO HOLD IT IN. IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE ANYTHING YOU, HAWAII, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT IT? NO, IT'S JUST THERE TO HOLD THE STUFF IN. YEAH. JUST TO HOLD THE STUFF. CORRECT. YEAH. SO THIS WAS A GOOD THING THAT THE COUNTY HAS EXPANDED THE PROGRAM TO INCLUDE DITCHES. 'CAUSE WE'RE REALLY RUNNING OUT RIGHT NOW AT THIS POINT IN TIME. WE'RE RUNNING DOWN OF BASKETBALL ROADS TO PROVIDE THEM TO, TO THE, THAT WE NEED ASSISTANCE ON. CORRECT. SO WHAT WE DID IS WE ACTUALLY CALLED IN WHEN WE, WHEN WE SAW THAT, WHEN WE JUST WEREN'T SURE THAT THE COUNTY WAS GONNA BE VERY RECEPTIVE TO THE, UH, ROADSIDE TO DRAINAGE OF BAR DITCH IS CALLED. SO, UH, OUR PEOPLE MET WITH THEIR, UM, UH, STAFF, THEIR FIELD PERSONNEL TOOK THEM TO THREE LOCATIONS THAT WE FELT, OR THAT WE WANTED TO HAVE SOME, SOME WORK DONE ON THAT WE CAN'T TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES BECAUSE EITHER OF EQUIPMENT OR MANPOWER. AND, UH, WE TOOK THESE, UH, GENTLEMEN AROUND THERE, THEY LOOKED AT 'EM SOMEWHAT, THEY RESISTED IN SOME CASES. IN SOME CASES THEY APPROVED IT. SO THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW. THERE ARE THREE YEAR ROADS AND I DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU HAVE 'EM THERE ON THE, OKAY. ONE IS THE, OKAY, ONE IS THAT OUT THAT ORANGE, UH, ROAD COMING OFF OF SEA, THAT ORANGE STRIP COMING OFF OF SEALY THAT GOES TO THE CREEK ITSELF TO ONE OF OUR GATES THERE, THAT IS ONE OF THE DRAINAGE DITCHES. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THEM ASSISTING US WITH. THE NEXT ONE IS A LONGER, LONGER ROAD, ONE THAT WE CALL MAGNOLIA DITCH. IT STARTS AROUND WHERE, UH, WHERE, UH, JASMINE PARK IS AND GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 3 32 AND ACROSS. AND THEN WE HAVE THE, AND AND THEN WE HAVE THIS PARTICULAR PART OF OLENDER, UH, THAT'S PART OF THE OLE OF THE MAG DITCH FROM THE HIGHWAY ALL THE WAY DOWN TO, UH, FLAG, UH, OR NOT FLAG, BUT TO THE, UH, DRIVE TO THE DITCH. YEAH. RIGHT. MEDICAL DRIVE AREA, DISCHARGE QUITE LONG WAYS ALL THE WAY. CORRECT. YEP. NOW THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT DITCH THERE. UH, WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS REALLY NOT A MA A GREAT, I MEAN, WE'RE NOT GONNA REALLY BE CHANGING THE, THE CHANNEL ITSELF. WE'RE GONNA BE PRIMARILY WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE TRYING TO DESALT, UH, THE FLOW, I MEAN THE FLOW LINE OF THE AREA BECAUSE IT'S BEEN, IT IS BUILT UP AND ACCUMULATED AND A LOT OF TIMES INTERRUPTS THE, UH, THE ACTUAL FREE FLOW OF WATER THROUGH THERE. THAT'S PRIMARILY THE CONS. AND AGAIN, SUBMITTING ALL THREE OF THESE DOESN'T MEAN ALL THREE OF THESE WILL GET DONE THIS YEAR. IT CORRECT. IT'S REALLY WHAT THEIR WORKLOAD IS. AND SO THEY MAY GET ONE THAT MAY GET TWO. YEAH. CORRECT. SO WE MAY BE COMING BACK TO YOU NEXT YEAR SAYING, WELL, THE SAME THING, RESUBMITTING, YOU KNOW, TWO, UH, YOU KNOW, OF THESE, OF THESE THREE. AND KEEP ON CHOPPING, YOU KNOW, THE BID UNTIL THEY CAN GET, UNTIL THEY GET IT ON THEIR SCHEDULE. CORRECT. OKAY. ANYTHING FURTHER? OKAY. HEARING, UH, NOTHING ELSE. I'LL TAKE A MOTION ON REGULAR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER TWO. I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE FISCAL YEAR 2025 IN YOUR LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH BRAZO COUNTY FOR ROAD PAVING AND DRAINAGE DITCH DESALTING PROJECTS REQUEST. SECOND. I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. ANY MORE DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. REGULAR AGENDA [3. Hurricane Beryl updates for the Wilderness Golf Course – Miguel Olvera] ITEM NUMBER THREE, HURRICANE BARREL UPDATES FOR THE WILDERNESS GOLF COURSE. MR. [01:10:02] ROBIN? I DID. I WANNA, UH, INTRODUCE THE NEW GM FOR THE GOLF COURSE. MIGUEL A VELA, I HAVE TO SAY HIS NAME RIGHT. SORRY, I'M PROBABLY MESSED IT UP. UM, HE'S ONLY BEEN HERE FOR A LITTLE OVER A MONTH AND, UM, I DID WANNA INTRODUCE YOU AND LET HIM GO HIT HIM, GIVE Y'ALL AN UPDATE ON EVERYTHING. SO, MAYOR, ARE YOU PRO TIM? COUNCIL MEMBERS? GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. I'M A LITTLE RUSTY. I HAVEN'T SPOKEN IN A WHILE AND INVITE ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE. SO, UM, MY NAME'S MIGUEL VERA. I'M THE NEW, UH, GENERAL MANAGER FOR WILDERNESS GOLF COURSE. UH, WANTED TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE FOR HURRICANE BURL FOR WILDERNESS GOLF COURSE. ALSO WANTED TO GIVE A SMALL INTRODUCTION, INTRODUCTION OF MYSELF, UM, KIND OF SOME EXPERIENCE I HAD, UM, WORKING AT DIFFERENT GOLF COURSES. SO, UM, SO I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN TEXAS. I ACTUALLY GREW, I WAS BORN IN AUSTIN, GREW UP IN BEAUMONT, WHICH IS A FEW HOURS AWAY, SO VERY, VERY, UH, I KNOW THIS AREA SOMEWHAT, ACTUALLY, MY GIRLFRIEND IS FROM THE AREA TOO. SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT MOVING BACK TO LAKE JACKSON. YOU WAS DRAGGED HERE? YEAH, I WAS DRAGGED HERE. SO, UM, BUT OVER THE LAST FOUR AND A HALF YEARS, I WAS A TRANSITION GENERAL MANAGER FOR A ANOTHER MANAGEMENT COMPANY. UM, UM, THEY MANAGED 40 OTHER GOLF COURSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, SO I WOULD GET A PHONE CALL, HEY, WE NEED SOMEBODY HERE TO, UH, BE THE NMGM FOR, FOR, UH, IT COULD BE FOUR TO SIX MONTHS. SO I WAS FLYING ALL OVER, ALL OVER THE COUNTRY FROM, UH, BURBANK TO CA, CALIFORNIA TO NEW ORLEANS, TO OKLAHOMA. SO I LIVED IN ALL, ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. SO, UM, AFTER THOSE FOUR AND A HALF YEARS, I WAS LOOKING AT A PLACE TO CALL HOME, AND THAT'S WHEN I SAW THIS POSITION OPENED UP. SO, UM, THERE'S SOME EXPERIENCES I HAD WITH CITY GOVERNMENT GOLF COURSES, AND I WORKED AT 18 DIFFERENT PROPERTIES DURING THIS LAST FOUR AND A HALF YEARS. SO, LIKE I SAID, I WAS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND LOOKING TO CALL A PLACE HOME. SO, UM, COUPLE EXPERIENCE, COUPLE EXPERIENCES I HAD IN TEXAS IS, UH, WORKING AT BATTLEGROUND GOLF COURSE OUT IN DEER PARK, TEXAS, WHICH IS NOT TOO FAR FROM ME. ACTUALLY, IT'S FUNNY STORY. I, DAY ONE, SOME OF THE DAYS I'VE BEEN OUT HERE, I'VE ACTUALLY SEEN PEOPLE THAT PLAYED A BATTLEGROUND. IT'S PRETTY COOL TO SEE SOME OF THE FAMILIAR FACES THAT, UH, CAME TO PLAY THERE. SO GETTING, GETTING, HOLD THOSE CONTACTS. SO, AND THEN CON TEXAS IS IN, UH, WHERE THE RIO RIVERS AT. SO, UM, I WAS THERE FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF. SO NEXT SLIDE. SO THESE NEXT FEW PICTURES, UM, OBVIOUSLY HURRICANE BARREL CAME THROUGH JULY 8TH AND IT PACKED A PUNCH WITH RAIN AND WIND. SO THESE PICTURES HERE AS, UH, AS, AS WE'RE SCROLLING THROUGH, UH, DID SIGNIFICANT DAM FINISH ON THE GOLF COURSE. SO I, AS SHE'S SCROLLING, THESE ARE VERY FEW PICTURES, BUT THIS DAMAGE WAS DAMAGED ALL ACROSS THE GOLF COURSE. FLOODING TREES, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, DIRTY CAR PATHS. SO WE WERE HAVING TO CLEAN UP THIS AREA AS SOON AS WE GOT ON THE PROPERTY. SO, AND THESE X THREE PITCHERS HERE, UH, JULY 13TH WAS, UM, AFTER, UH, FIVE DAYS AFTER HURRICANE BURL. THIS IS, UH, WE WERE NOT ABLE TO DEWATER THE GOLF COURSE 'CAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE ELECTRICITY FOR FIVE WATER. SO THAT WATER STOOD THERE LIKE THAT FOR FIVE DAYS. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THE RESULT WAS THE MIDDLE PICTURE THERE. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE STILL DEALING WITH TO THIS DAY RIGHT NOW. ACTUALLY, SOME, SOME AREAS HAVE IMPROVED BETTER THAN OTHERS, BUT THAT WAS A CLEAR CUT PICTURE OF WHAT IT WAS. FIVE OR ON, UM, FIVE DAYS AFTER WE GOT POWER AND WE WERE ABLE TO DEWATER THE GOLF COURSE. AND THEN JULY 26TH, WE ACTUALLY GOT ANOTHER 15 INCHES OF RAIN. UM, IT WAS A REALLY WET MONTH THAT MONTH. SO AS YOU CAN SEE, THE GOLF COURSE WAS BACK TO WHAT ORIGINAL PICTURE ON JULY 13TH. SO NEXT, NEXT SLIDE. SO THE AFTERMATH, UM, WE GOT THREE FLOOD EVENTS PRETTY MUCH IN ONE MONTH AND OVER 30, OR EXCUSE ME, BETWEEN 23 TO 30 DAYS. UM, ONE STAT I WANTED TO REALLY POINT OUT IS THAT YES, HER HURRICANE HARVEY WAS ALSO A FLOOD EVENT, BUT BETWEEN, UH, HURRICANE BARREL AND, UM, HURRICANE HARVEY, HURRICANE BARREL HAD 78 MILLION GALLS OF WATER WE DEWATERED VERSUS HURRICANE HARVEY. SO, AS YOU COULD TELL, THAT'S, UH, WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED THAT MUCH RAIN IN THAT SHORT AMOUNT OF PERIOD. AND, UM, IN BETWEEN THOSE 20 TO 30 DAYS, SO, SO ONE THING THAT, UH, I, I DIDN'T GET ON PROPERTY UNTIL AUGUST 16TH. SO THE TEAM REALLY GOT AFTER, UH, CLEANING UP THE GOLF COURSE. DAY ONE, ACTUALLY, THEY WERE TRYING TO GET ON THE GOLF COURSE, BUT THEY COULDN'T, 'CAUSE THERE WAS A TREE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DRIVEWAY. SO THEY ACTUALLY HAD TO CUT THROUGH, CUT THEIR WAY THROUGH TO GET ON THE GOLF COURSE. SO, UM, SO WE STARTED AIR VERIFYING, UM, OUR FAIRWAYS. THAT WAS REALLY [01:15:01] IMPORTANT, A KEY THERE 'CAUSE WE WANTED TO GET AIRFLOW AND THOSE FAIRWAYS TO GET GRASS STARTED GROWING, UH, IMMEDIATELY. SO, UH, WE'RE ALSO ABLE TO AIR FIRE OUR GREENS. THAT WAS A VERY KEY COMPONENT TOO. AS YOU, AS GOLFERS KNOW, GREENS ARE VERY IMPORTANT. SO WE WANT TO MAKE THOSE, UH, WE WANNA HAVE THE FIRMEST GREENS IN THE AREA. UM, THEN ONE THING BLAINE DID, OUR SUPERINTENDENT DID, HE PUT DOWN ORGANIC, ORGANIC FERTILIZER DOWN ON THE FAIRWAYS AND WE'RE ABLE TO GET THAT RECOVERY, THAT TURF RECOVERY GOING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. I BELIEVE I, I THINK HE PUT DOWN 17 TONS, TONS OF FERTILIZER. AND THE BIGGEST COMPONENT WAS THE TREE CLEANUP. AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PREVIOUS PICTURES, WE HAD OVER A HUNDRED TRIGGERS REMOVED FROM THE GOLF COURSE. SO ACTUALLY WE HAD ONE BEAUTIFUL TREE THAT WENT DOWN ON NUMBER THREE THAT COMPLETELY CHANGED THE HOLE. SO WE'RE STILL CLEANING UP ACTUALLY TREES OUT THERE. SO, UM, ONE SAFETY COMPONENT WE REALLY WANTED TO CLEAN UP WAS ANY TREE HANGERS, WHAT I CALL 'EM, ANYTHING THAT WOULD FALL ON GOLFERS OUT THERE. WE'RE OUT THERE PLAYING. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO KEY ON, AND MAKING SURE WE GOT THOSE CLEANED UP BEFORE WE OPENED. NICE THAT YOU SEE HERE, THAT WE HAVE THE DRIVING RANGE, UM, BIG, UH, BIG PART OF OUR GOLF COURSE. SO THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE, UH, DURING THE HURRICANE, AND THAT'S WHAT THE HURRICANE DID. SO WE'RE ABLE TO CALL A POWER WASHING COMPANY AND GET THAT CLEANED UP FOR OUR GOLFERS BEFORE REOPEN REOPENING, AND THEN MORE RAIN ACTUALLY DELAYED OUR REOPENING. SO, UH, WE PROPOSED A DATE OF SEPTEMBER 5TH, AND WE HAD THE COMMUNICATION GOING. WE WANTED TO GET OPEN ON SEPTEMBER 5TH, BUT WE HAD ANOTHER SIX INCHES FALL ON US ON SEPTEMBER 19TH, OR EXCUSE ME, THE WEEK PRIOR. THEN WE REVISED THE DATE TO SEPTEMBER 19TH, UM, FOR OUR MEMBERS AND OUR PAST HOLDER MEMBERS, WE DID A SOFT OPENING OF SEPTEMBER 18TH FROM EIGHT TO 12. WE HAD TWO TIMES AVAILABLE FOR THEM AND WE MADE IT A VIP DAY. WE WANTED TO THANK THEM FOR COMING IN, PAYING THEIR DUES FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS, AND REALLY BEING PATIENT WHILE WE GOT THIS GOLF COURSE OPEN. SO WE WANTED TO HAVE AN INCLUSIVE DAY FOR THEM WHILE THEY COME OUT HERE AND ENJOY THE GOLF COURSE. UH, THEN WE HAD A PUBLIC OPENING DAY ON SEPTEMBER 19TH. ONE THING WE DID FOR A MONTH, WE REDUCED THE PRICE ACROSS THE, ACROSS THE BOARD FOR $5 OFF. SO ANYBODY CHECKING IN PLAYING GOLF, WE REDUCED THEIR RATE FOR $5. WE ENDED THAT ON OCTOBER 19TH. NOW WE'RE BACK TO OUR REGULAR RATES. UM, ONE THING WE COMMUNIC COMMUNICATED TO ALSO IS OUR COURSE CONDITIONS. AND, AND WE'RE STILL DEALING WITH SOME OF THESE COURSE CONDITIONS STILL OUT THERE RIGHT NOW. UH, IT'S CAR PATH ONLY. THAT'S VERY VITAL TO GROWING, UH, TURF AND GRASS RECOVERY RIGHT NOW. UH, NUMBER NINE TOOK THE BIGGEST HIT. THAT'S, THAT'S THE AREA THAT HAD THE MOST LINE LOW LINE IN AREAS. SO WE'RE PLAYING THAT AS A PART THREE. IT'S A SHORTER HOLE, UH, VERSUS, UH, I THINK IT'S PLAYING USUALLY PLAYS ABOUT A 450 YARDS, BUT IT'S PLAYING ABOUT A 150 YARD SHOT RIGHT NOW. SO NEXT PAGE. AND ALSO WE OFFERED ANY, UM, ANY PAYING CUSTOMER $15 OFF, UM, FOR THEIR NEXT ROUND. SO WE'RE GIVING 'EM A COUPON WHEN THEY CHECK IN, THEY'RE PAYING THE RACK RATE AND WE'RE GIVING 'EM A $15 OFF COUPON THEY CAN USE BEFORE DECEMBER 31ST. AND THEN, UM, ANY PASS HOLDERS AND MEMBERS. I KNOW THE MAIN QUESTION IS WHAT HAVE WE DONE FOR THEM? WE, WE REALLY APPRECIATE ANY MEMBERS THAT PAY THEIR DUES. UH, THE LAST, THOSE TWO MONTHS, THAT WAS VERY VITAL TO PAY PAYROLL PAY EXPENSES. SO I REALLY APPRECIATE ANY MEMBERS THAT, UM, PAY THEIR DUES DURING THOSE TWO TIMES, TWO MONTHS. I UNDERSTAND EVERYBODY'S SITUATION'S DIFFERENT. ANYBODY THAT CAME TO US FOR A REFUND, WE SAID NO QUESTIONS ASKED. WE REFUNDED THOSE, THOSE TWO MONTHS TO THEM, UH, TO HELP THEM OUT. AND OUR COMMUNICATION PLAN THIS WHOLE TIME, WE WANTED TO PROVIDE UPDATES TO OUR, TO OUR, UH, TO OUR CUSTOMERS TOO. SO JOHN STARK, WHO'S OUR HEAD GOLF PROFESSIONAL, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE THE STATS THERE, HE PROVIDED 15 INSTAGRAM POSTS, 18 FACEBOOK POSTS, AND 10 EMAILS, UH, THROUGHOUT OUR CUSTOMER BASE, PROVIDING UPDATES ON, UH, COURSE UPDATES, REOPENING DATES. UH, I THINK THE FIRST EMAIL HE SENT OUT WAS JULY 10TH, RIGHT? TWO DAYS AFTER, OR EXCUSE ME, A COUPLE DAYS AFTER THE HURRICANE. SO, UM, SO HE PROVIDED UP TO DATE DATES OF WHAT WAS GOING ON AT THE GOLF COURSE. AND HERE'S A COUPLE EXAMPLES OF WHAT JOHN STARK DID. UM, LEFT HAND SIDE AS AN EMAIL, UH, THAT WE SENT OUT TO OUR CUSTOMER DATABASE, GIVEN AN UPDATE OF, UH, I THINK THAT WAS WHEN POWER JUST GOT RESTORED. AND THEN ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE IS A STILL SHOT OF A VIDEO OF HIM IN FRONT OF NUMBER SIX BUNKER. THAT'S A WEEK AFTER HURRICANE BARREL THERE. SO PROVIDING AN UPDATE OF OUR, UH, JUST SHOWING OUR CUSTOMERS WHAT'S, WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR GOLF COURSE. AND THEN RIGHT NOW OUR, UH, GOLF COURSE, OUR BIGGEST, UM, UH, POLICY WE HAVE OUT THERE RIGHT NOW, IT'S BEING ON CAR PATH ONLY. SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS EVERYBODY HAS TO STAY ON THE CAR PATH. NOBODY CAN DRIVE OFF THE CAR PATH UNLESS YOU GOT A HANDICAP [01:20:01] FLAG. WE'RE BEING VERY, UH, ANYBODY THAT'S ASKING FOR ONE, WE ARE GIVING EVERYBODY A HANDICAP FLAG SO THEY'RE ALLOWED TO DRIVE ON THE COURSE. UM, BUT IF WE LET GO 70 CARTS AND LET 'EM DRIVE ON THE GOLF COURSE, THAT'S GONNA, UH, PROLONG ANY TURF RECOVERY GOING ON AT THE MOMENT. SO, UM, LIKE I SAID, THE GOLF COURSE HELD OF WATER FOR 20 DAYS, SO IT'S A RECORD SETTING DAYS OF THE GOLF COURSE HELD IN WATER. SO THAT REALLY STRESSED THOSE FAIRWAYS OUT. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THE, THE PICTURE ON SLIDE THREE THAT WE, THAT I SHOWED Y'ALL BEFORE, THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE. AND AS, AS, AS WE CONTINUE TO IMPROVE, WE, WE WANT TO IMPLEMENT THE CAR PATH POLICY POLICY AND STAY ON THE CAR PATH, UH, UH, AS LONG AS WE CAN. ME AND BLAINE AND OUR TEAM, WERE LOOKING AT THIS AND, AND HAVING MEETINGS EVERY WEEK. AND THIS IS A TOPIC OF CONVERSATION IN OUR STAFF MEETINGS. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT SCENARIOS. CAN WE GET OFF THE CART PATH? BLAINE AND I ARE TOURING THE GOLF COURSE, SO WE ARE HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS, BUT AT THIS MOMENT, THE BEST THING WE DO TO GROW GRASS IS BEING ON THE, BEING ON THE, UH, BEING ON THE CART PATH. UM, THE BASIC BIGGEST RISK, IF WE DO SAY TOMORROW WE GET OFF THE CART PATH, WE'RE GONNA HINDER ANY GRASS RECOVERY, ESPECIALLY STRESS BERMUDA THAT'S HELD WATER FOR 20 PLUS DAYS. UM, AND THEN COME MARCH AND APRIL, WE'RE LOOKING AT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS COST INSIDE OR MORE. UM, THAT'S JUST SOD AND THAT'S WITHOUT LABOR. AND WE'RE LOOKING AT MARCH, APRIL, MAY, PUTTING THAT SIDED DOWN AND ALSO BEING CAR PATH ONLY THOSE DAY, THOSE MONTHS, BECAUSE WE CAN'T JUST PUT SIDE DOWN AND LET CARTS DRIVE IT ALL OVER 'EM. WE GOTTA BE LET, GOTTA LET THOSE ROOTS GROW IN. SO, UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PROJECT IF WE GET OFF THE CART PATH RIGHT NOW. AND HERE'S ONE SOLUTION, UM, UM, THAT WE THOUGHT ABOUT IS THAT IS REVISITING OUR GPS TECHNOLOGY. UH, RIGHT NOW THE CARTS AREN'T SET UP TO HAVE GPS TECHNOLOGY, BUT TALKING TO OUR REP, THAT'S A PROJECT WE CAN KNOCK OUT IN A DAY. SO IF WE GET IT APPROVED, UM, THE ONLY THING WE'RE WAITING ON IS INVENTORY OF SCREENS, AND THAT'S THE ONLY THING HOLDING BACK UP TILL FE FEBRUARY OF 2025. BUT IF, UM, THEY CAN COME OUT ON DAY'S WORK, GET FOUR TECHNICIANS OUT THERE AND SET UP THE SCREEN, SET UP THE WIRING, WHAT THAT COULD HELP US IS WE CAN ZERO IN ON THE, ON THE AREAS THAT ARE REALLY DAMAGED AND GEO FENCE THOSE AREAS WHERE, UM, IF YOU'RE DRIVEN ON A GOLF CART, IT'LL START BEEPING RIGHT, RIGHT AWAY IF WE GEO FENCE THOSE AREAS THAT CANNOT BE DRIVEN ON. SO I ALSO WANTED TO TALK ABOUT, UM, SOME OF OUR GOLF COURSE REVIEWS. UH, SO TREE REVIEW IS A, UH, IS A, UH, CUSTOMER SERVICE LINK, UH, PROVIDED BY C KEMPER SPORTS THAT, UH, THAT WE USE AT THE WILDERNESS. UM, SO SEPTEMBER WE'VE HAD 27 OVERALL REVIEWS. UH, WE'VE HAD FIVE DETRACTORS IS WHAT I CALL NEGATIVE REVIEWS. UH, 22 POSITIVE REVIEWS. UH, FOUR OUT OF THOSE FIVE REVIEWS, THE, THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS WERE ABOUT THE CAR PATH ONLY POLICY. IN OCTOBER, WE'VE HAD 65 OVERALL REVIEWS, UM, 11 DETRACTORS AND THEN 55 PROMOTER REVIEWS. UH, ONE THING I WANTED TO POINT OUT IS THAT THE LIKELIHOOD OF SOMEBODY COMING BACK AND STILL PLAYING THE GOLF COURSE, THAT CAR PATH ONLY IS OVER 9.0. A LOT OF GOLF COURSES DON'T SEE THAT, EVEN IF THEY'RE OFF THE CAR PATH ONLY AND HAVE THE BEST CONDITIONS. SO FOR OUR CUSTOMERS TO SAY, HEY, WE'RE GONNA KEEP COMING BACK AND HAVING A 9.0 RATING, THAT MEANS WE'RE DOING OUR WORK, WE'RE DOING OUR JOB, AND REALLY MAKING THIS GOLF COURSE THE BEST IT CAN BE. UM, OUT OF THE 16 COMBINED DETRACTORS, UM, ALMOST HALF OF THOSE, UH, SIX OF THOSE ARE BEING MADE BY THE SAME THREE CUSTOMERS. I WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT TO TWO. AND THEN OUR TRUE REVIEW, POSITIVE COMMENTS, WE'VE HAD SO MANY GREAT COMMENTS, UH, FROM OUR CUSTOMER BASE, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, THESE PERFECT EXAMPLES THERE. SO, UM, THESE, THESE FOUR COMMENTS ARE OUT OF HUNDREDS THAT WE GET EVERY DAY FROM OUR CUSTOMER BASE. I'VE HAD PEOPLE STOP US IN THE PARKING LOT. HEY, THANK YOU FOR BEING OPEN AND PROVIDING A SAFE GOLF COURSE OUT THERE. AND LASTLY, I WANT TO, LIKE I SAID, I'VE ONLY, I'VE GOTTEN TO MEET THE STAFF. I'VE ONLY BEEN THERE FOR ABOUT A MONTH, MONTH OR SO, BUT THIS IS A REALLY GREAT STAFF HERE. UM, THEY HAD HURRICANE DAMAGE AT THEIR HOUSES. THEY'VE BEEN THERE SINCE DAY ONE, CLEANING UP THE, UH, GOLF COURSE, GETTING IT READY FOR OUR STAFF, FOR OUR CUSTOMERS. SO, AND THESE ARE, UH, THESE ARE EMPLOYEES FROM DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. THEY WORK GOLF CARTS, THEY WORK MARSHALS. THEY ALL TEAMED UP AND JOINED OUR MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT, UH, HELP 'EM HAND IN HAND. AND ALSO WANT TO THANK ROBIN, UH, FOR GETTING SOME EQUIPMENT THAT WE, THAT WE NEEDED TO GET, REMOVE SOME TREES. SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON PROVIDING THAT EQUIPMENT AND GET THIS GOLF COURSE READY. SO THANK YOU. WELCOME TO LAKE JACKSON. YES, SIR. THANK YOU. YEAH. AND MIGUEL, YOU KNOW, ROBIN'S WORKING WITH, UH, CAMPER, WE STILL [01:25:01] GOT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF REPAIRS STILL, YOU KNOW, TO BE MADE, YOU KNOW, BUNKERS AND STUFF. WE'RE TRYING TO GET THAT LIST TOGETHER OR WE'RE TRYING TO IDENTIFY, OR WE HAVE IDENTIFIED OF TRYING TO GET IT FUNDED THROUGH, YOU KNOW, FEMA, HOPEFULLY WE CAN, UH, GET THE BUNKERS IN CONSIDER FOR CATEGORY G FUNDS. IF NOT, THEN WE'LL HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT, YOU KNOW, IN THE BUDGET, THE BUDGETING PROCESS. BUT, UM, THAT'S, UH, IT'S NOT GONNA HAVE, IT'S NOT GONNA BE REPAIRED DAY ONE. YEAH. UM, UM, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO SLOG SLOG THROUGH THIS FOR THE NEXT, UH, YEAR OR SO, UH, TO GET IT BACK TO THE WAY, THE WAY IT WAS. YEP, ABSOLUTELY. AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GONNA PROVIDE OUR CUSTOMERS STILL WITH THAT. UM, THOSE UPDATES IS, UM, LET 'EM KNOW WHAT THE COURSE CONDITIONS ARE GONNA LOOK LIKE AND LET THEM MAKE THE CHOICE IF THEY WANNA PLAY THERE OR NOT. BUT WE'RE GONNA PROVIDE THOSE UPDATES, UH, MOVING FORWARD. YEP. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY. NO ACTION TO BE TAKEN ON THIS. I DON'T THINK SO. WE'LL JUST MOVE ON. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD TO MEET YOU. THANK YOU. [4. Discuss and consider the selection of consultants DCMC, LLC, and GrantWorks, Inc. for Disaster Consulting and Grant Administration Services (RFP 24-10-011), authorizing the City Manager to negotiate the contract. – Eric Wilson] WE'LL MOVE ON TO REGULAR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER THE SELECTION OF CONSULTANTS. D-C-M-C-L-L-C AND GRANT WORKS, INC. FOR DISASTER CONSULTING AND GRANT ADMINISTRATION SERVICES. RFP TWO FOUR DASH 10 DASH ZERO ONE AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE THE CONTRACT. MR. WILSON. GOOD. A EVENING MAYOR PRO TIM COUNCIL, UH, IN OCTOBER, WE WENT OUT FOR A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR DISASTER CONSULTING SERVICES AND GRANT MANAGEMENT SERVICES. UH, WE RECEIVED THREE RESPONSIVE, UH, PROPOSALS. WE HAD AN EVALUATION TEAM OF FIVE PEOPLE. AND IN THE COMMUNICATION, THE, UH, RESULTS WERE, UH, DCMC, UH, HAD THE HIGHEST SCORE. GRANT WORKS HAD THE SECOND SCORE, AND OUR DURA, UH, HAD THE THIRD. AND JUST LIKE WE DO WITH THE DEBRIS REMOVAL, WE ARE REQUESTING CONTRACTS WITH TWO OF THOSE. UM, WE NEVER KNOW WHAT THE CONDITIONS ARE WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS. IF, IF THE FIRST CHOICE IS NOT AVAILABLE, WE HAVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY TO RESPOND DUE TO THE REQUIREMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE, UH, FEDERAL FEMA AND, UH, HUD GRANTS. SO WE CAN GET BACK EVERYTHING GOING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. UH, AT THIS POINT, WE ARE REQUESTING THE APPROVAL OF A CONTRACT WITH DCMC AND GRANT WORKS. THERE IS NO FUNDING ASSOCIATED WITH THESE CONTRACTS. THEY WILL BE DONE ON AN AS NEEDED TASK ORDER BASIS. UH, WE WILL BE COMING BACK AT THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING FOR A TASK ORDER WITH DCMC TO CONTINUE THE WORK FOR HURRICANE UH, BARREL. AND, UH, WE WILL HAVE A NEGOTIATED ESTIMATED AMOUNT ON THAT ONE. BUT THIS IS JUST TO GET THE CONTRACT IN PLACE TO HAVE US READY TO GO, SHOULD ANOTHER INCIDENT OCCUR, UH, AND HAVE 'EM READY TO GO THE SECOND, UH, WE NEED THEM. AND THUS DOING THAT, JUST THIS WAS A, GAVE US A HUGE LEG UP IN RECOVERING FROM RURAL BECAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF CITIES WHEN WE WERE, THEY WERE JUST STARTING THE PROCESS. SO THIS HELPS. YEAH, I MEAN, AND THIS LAST TIME WE WERE LUCKY THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, EITHER HJC OR THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT HAD, YOU KNOW, 90 DAY CONTRACTS, BUT THEN WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO DO A 90 DAY. WE COULD ACTUALLY HAVE, IF ON THESE TWO COMPANIES, WE COULD HAVE USED THEM THROUGH THE, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE ENTIRE PROCESS. UM, SO NOW WE HAVE THIS 90 DAY CONTRACT, AND THEN WE HAVE TO START, YOU KNOW, OVER AGAIN. IS THAT CORRECT, ERIC? YES. THE, THE 90 DAY CONTRACT ACTUALLY EXPIRES TOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT. UH, SO AT MIDNIGHT TOMORROW. DCMC WILL STAND DOWN, UH, IN DISCUSSIONS WITH THEM TODAY, WE'RE OKAY, EVERYTHING THAT IS URGENT TO FEMA HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE PORTAL, SO WE'LL BE GOOD. AND WE WILL BE COMING BACK ON THE 18TH AND WE WILL SET TASK ORDER ONE, UH, FOR EXECUTION ON THE MORNING OF THE 19TH AND SCHEDULED FOR OUR NEXT MEETING WITH FEMA ON EITHER THE 19TH THROUGH THE 20TH. BUT ERIC, GOING FORWARD, IF WE UNFORTUNATE TO GET HIT, YOU KNOW, THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS WITH ANOTHER HURRICANE, WE COULD JUST ISSUE A WORK ORDER AND IT WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE JUST 90 DAYS, CORRECT? UH, THIS, THESE CONTRACTS ARE FOR THREE YEARS FIXED. AND THEN, UH, TWO AUTOMATIC RENEWALS. THERE IS PRICE ESCALATOR LANGUAGE WRITTEN INTO THEIRS, UH, INTO THE, THE PROPOSALS THAT WERE RECEIVED. AND THAT WILL BE WRITTEN INTO THE AGREEMENT, UH, THAT WE SIGNED WITH [01:30:01] THE FIRMS. AND THAT WILL BE FOUR YEARS, FOUR AND FIVE. THERE'S NO ESCALATION ON THE FIRST THREE UNDER CONTRACTS HAVE BEEN REVIEWED BY MR. NOT YOU, WE DON'T HAVE CONTRACTS YET. YEAH, SHE REVIEWED THE DRAFT CONTRACT. I, OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, BUT NOT FINE. YES, I HAVE REVIEWED THE DRAFT CONTRACT. ANY OTHER, OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL HEARING NONE. I'LL TAKE A MOTION ON REGULARS AGENDA TO ITEM NUMBER FOUR. I WILL MAKE A MOTION, UM, TO APPROVE THE SELECTION OF CONSULTANTS DC M-C-L-L-C, UH, FOR DISASTER CONSULTING AND GRANT ADMINISTRATION SERVICES, AND AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE THE CONTRACT. UH, WE'RE ALSO RECOMMENDING GRANT WORKS AS WELL. GRANT WORKS? YES, JEFF, SKIP THAT SECOND. I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. ANY MORE DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. REGULAR AGENDA [5. Discuss and consider approving Resolution No. 965, casting 51 votes for candidates for the Board of Directors of the Brazoria County Appraisal District – Modesto Mundo] ITEM NUMBER FIVE, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER APPROVING RESOLUTION NUMBER 9 6 5 CASTING 51 VOTES FOR CANDIDATES FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BRAZORIA COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT. MR. MUNDO, MAYOR, COUNSEL, UH, THE, UH, CANDIDATES, UH, HAVE BEEN, UH, BOARD, UH, TO US, I BELIEVE, UM, UH, COUNCIL HAD, UM, NOMINATED MR. JONES. HE IS NOW ON THE LIST AND YOU HAVE 51 VOTES TO GIVE TO SPREAD IT OUT, UH, TO ANY OF THE CANDIDATES OR GIVE IT TO ALL TO ONE. WE LOOKING FOR A MOTION? OF COURSE. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. ANY MORE? ANY? NO. THAT WE, UH, VOTE OUR FALL 51 VOTES TO GLEN JONES. SECOND. I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO GIVE ALL 51 VOTES TO GLENN JONES. ANY MORE DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. REGULAR [6. Discuss and set a date to hold a financial workshop in December 2024 – Modesto Mundo] AGENDA. ITEM NUMBER SIX, DISCUSS AND SET A DATE TO HOLD A FINANCIAL WORKSHOP IN DECEMBER OF 2024. MR. MUNDO, MAYOR, COUNSEL, UM, DURING THE SUMMER, UM, YOU KNOW, DURING THE PROCESS, UM, UM, WE USUALLY, YOU KNOW, START THE BUDGET PROCESS IN APRIL AND MAY, BUT INVARIABLY THERE'S, UH, IT COMES UP, UH, YOU KNOW, ITEMS, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE PUBLIC HEARING. YOU KNOW, ARE THERE THINGS THAT WE COULD STREAMLINE THAT PUTS, UH, A TREMENDOUS, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, I GUESS A GUN TO THE HEAD ON, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, WELL, IS THERE ANYTHING TO CUT OR REMOVE OR DO WE WANT TO STOP AND, UH, DOING IN THE FUTURE? AND SO I, I KNOW IT'S TOUGH ON COUNCIL, SO I PLEDGE THAT, YOU KNOW, I WOULD COME BACK, YOU KNOW, SOMETIME IN A MORE RELAXED SETTING TO GET, YOU KNOW, FEEDBACK FROM COUNCIL. ARE THERE THINGS THAT YOU WANT TO SUNSET OR ARE THERE THINGS THAT NO, THAT'S OFF LIMIT. UM, UM, AND THEN WE CAN HAVE BETTER DIRECTION, UM, YOU KNOW, ON THAT, IN THE FRAMEWORK ALSO OF DISCUSSING OF WHAT WE ANTICIPATE REVENUES ARE GOING TO BE IN REGARDS TO SALES TAX GROWTH, UH, GROWTH OR ANY OTHER FEES, AND WHAT POSSIBLY THE TAX RATE NEEDS TO BE TO GENERATE TAX RATE, UH, REVENUE IN LIGHT OF, YOU KNOW, IN THE GENERAL FUND, THE THING THAT DRIVES, YOU KNOW, UH, THE BUDGET IS SALARY. AND WE CAN PRETTY MUCH, UH, PROJECT THOSE, UM, TO YOU. AND THEN, AND THEN GIVE YOU A KIND OF AN IDEA OF WHAT THE TAX RATE WOULD BE OVER THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, THREE TO, UH, THREE TO FIVE YEARS. WE'VE USUALLY ONLY LOOK AT THAT, YOU KNOW, IN ONE YEAR INCREMENTS. AND I THOUGHT, WELL, IT'D BE BETTER TO LOOK AT THAT IN A THREE TO FIVE YEAR INCREMENT. AND SO KIND OF GIVE A, A GROUNDWORK, UH, AT LEAST GOING INTO THE BUDGET, UH, FROM COUNCIL KNOWING THAT, WELL THIS YEAR WE, WE PROJECT THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED TO DO THIS WITH THE REVENUE, OR WE NEED TO CUT BACK ON AN EXPENDITURE, OR WE CAN'T GROW AS MUCH ON AN EXPENDITURE OR ITEM. UH, SO I, I THOUGHT THAT THIS WOULD GIVE US A CHANCE JUST TO STEP BACK AND LOOK AT, UM, YOU KNOW, NOT SET ANYTHING IN CONCRETE, BUT, UH, LOOK MORE LONG TERM. AND, AND WE'RE ALREADY TRYING TO DO THAT NOW WITH THE WATER, WITH THE UTILITY FUND, BUT WE'VE NOT DONE THAT WITH THE GENERAL FUND. SO THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO DO THAT. UM, I PICKED DECEMBER. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE DECEMBER, IT CAN BE JANUARY OR FEBRUARY, BUT IT DOES NEED TO HAPPEN BEFORE MARCH OR APRIL BEFORE WE GET INTO THE [01:35:01] BUDGET, THE BUDGET SEASON. UM, BUT ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I HAD ALSO PICKED DECEMBER, BECAUSE I THINK WE'RE PROBABLY STAFF IS WORKING ON A MODEST RECOMMENDATION OF DISCUSSING A BOND ISSUE IN MAY FOR CONSIDERATION. UH, JAMES HAS TALKED TO OUR FINANCIAL ADVISOR FOR A CONSERVATIVE 10, 15 AND $20 MILLION ISSUE THAT'S IN LIGHT OF, OF ONE. WE HAD THE REST STUDY GIVEN TO US, UH, IN THE FALL OF LAST YEAR. AND THE RECOMMENDATION ON THE ARTERIALS WAS WE NEEDED TO INVEST ANOTHER FIVE, YOU KNOW, FIVE, UH, 5 MILLION ON STREETS OR, UM, THREE TO 5 MILLION. UM, AND THEN WE'VE HAD SOME FACILITY REPAIRS THAT WE NEED TO DO. WE KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE SHORT. UH, IF WE ISSUED, UH, THE, THE DEBT FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT EXPANSION, THE 2.7 THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE VOTERS WON'T COVER THAT. NOW, UH, BASED ON INFLATION, WE HAVE A POSSIBLE SHORTAGE ON, UH, THE NEXT BOND ISSUE THAT, I MEAN THAT WE, WE'VE ISSUED ALREADY WHERE WE'VE SUBMITTED FOR GRANT FUNDS FOR DRAINAGE, AND THEN WE HAVE TRAFFIC LIGHTS THAT WERE DAMAGED, UH, DURING THE STORM. SO WE HAVE A LIST OF THINGS THAT, UH, WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF. AND SO, UH, UM, I'D LIKE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH COUNCIL TO SEE IF WE WANT TO DO A SMALLER ISSUANCE AND WHAT IN EFFECT THAT WOULD'VE ON THE TAX RATE, UH, TO GET SOME OF THESE ITEMS OFF THE LIST THAT WE, THAT WE PROBABLY NEED TO ADDRESS AND THAT THE CIP WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FUND, UH, THIS NEXT COMING YEAR BECAUSE WE'VE HAD TO ABSORB IT. UH, WE'VE HAD TO ABSORB BARREL, UH, YOU KNOW, INTO THAT. SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE REVENUE THAT WE HAVE IN THE UTILITY FUND AND THE GENERAL FUND, UH, AT THE END WILL NOT BE AS WHAT IT HAS BEEN IN THE LAST THREE YEARS. THIS BE AN ALL DAY AFFAIR? UH, NO, NO. I WAS EXPECTING THAT IT WOULD BE A, IN THE EVENING AND A COUNCIL MEETING SESSION, LIKE KIND OF LIKE A CIP WORKSHOP, IT'D BE NO MORE THAN THREE HOURS. OKAY. UH, BUT AGAIN, AND I KNOW DECEMBER'S A TOUGH TIME, UH, SO EITHER EARLY JANUARY, BUT IF WE'RE TALKING MORE OF THE, THE BOND DISCUSSION, UM, WE, WE WOULD HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION IN FEBRUARY AND WE CAN ACTUALLY BREAK THAT UP. ONE. THE FIRST ONE COULD BE A BOND ISSUE DISCUSSION, AND THE OTHER ONE COULD BE A LONG-TERM, UH, BUDGET, UM, UH, DISCUSSION. IT'D BE BETTER TO HAVE THE BOND ONE FIRST, BUT THEN YOU'D HAVE SOME INCLINATION IF YOU DON'T WANT TO APPROVE THE BOND AND THERE HAVE EFFECT ON, ON THE BUDGET FOR THE FOLLOWING YEAR. SO YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE ONE AFTER THE OTHER. DO THAT FROM FIRST. OKAY. I GUESS NOT THAT. OKAY. THIS GONNA BE A SATURDAY. NO, I WAS EXPECTING, I, WELL, MY INTENTION WAS TO DO IT ON AN OFF MONDAY. UH, THAT'S GOOD. AND THERE, IF COUNSEL WAS WILLING, UH, TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION. YEAH, THAT'S EVEN BETTER. AND YEAH, WE'LL, WE'LL BRING SOME CANDY. SO I WAS, I WAS THINKING AT FIVE O'CLOCK, YOU KNOW, UH, WORK SESSION, YOU KNOW, FIVE TO, UH, 12:00 PM 12:00 AM OKAY. WAIT, I DON'T AGREE TO THOSE HOURS. , IF COUNCIL'S OPEN TO IT, THEN WE'LL SEND YOU, UH, WE'LL SEND YOU SEVERAL, UH, SEVERAL DATES TO SEE. IT'S A GOOD IDEA, UH, WHAT'S THERE. SO WE'LL TRY THAT. AND, UH, IF EVERYBODY'S, UH, AGREES WITH COUNCILMAN SHANYA, WE'LL MAYBE FOCUS FIRST ON, UH, THE BOND ISIT AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A SECOND MEETING FOR A LONG TERM BUDGET DISCUSSION. UH, THERE WON'T BE BOTH IN DECEMBER. UH, THAT ONE MAY COULD WAIT, UH, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE, OF THE YEAR IN JANUARY, THERE'S NOT AS MUCH PRESSURE. THE, THE BOND ONE IS MORE OF, YOU HAVE TO CALL FOR A BOND IN FEBRUARY. YEAH. SO I CAN GIVE YOU SOME THE, WE HAVE COUNCIL ON THE SECOND AND THE 16TH. SO YOU HAVE THE SECOND WEEK IN DECEMBER, WHICH IS THE NINTH. THE FOLLOWING AFTER THE 16TH IS THE 23RD, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, CHRISTMAS. YEAH, THAT'S REALLY, THAT'S UP TO Y'ALL. AND THEN THE 30TH, WE HAVE FIVE MONDAYS IN DECEMBER. DO YOU HAVE THE NINTH, 23RD, OR THE 30TH? DOES IT HAVE TO BE ON MONDAY? IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ON A MONDAY. UM, IF THERE, THE 30TH IS MY 21ST BIRTHDAY. OH, I REALLY DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT BONDS ON THAT DAY. IF THERE IS ANOTHER PARTICULAR DAY OF THE WEEK THAT, I MEAN, IT CAN BE AN OFF MONDAY OR IT CAN BE A, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT OTHER NIGHTS ARE, ARE GOOD FOR COUNCIL. TUESDAY WE TRY, TUESDAYS WE TRY TO STAY WITH, 'CAUSE IT'S OTHER BOARD MEETING DATES. THURSDAY THE 17TH WOULD PROBABLY BE OPEN BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT PLANNERS ON THE THIRD AND TRAFFIC WOULD [01:40:01] BE THE 10TH. SO THAT WOULD BE THE 17TH. CAN YOU JUST SEND US SOME OPTIONS THE WAY YOU DO? WE'LL LOOK AT THE CALENDAR AND SEND YOU, BUT WE'LL ALSO INCLUDE MAYBE A COUPLE OF THURSDAYS IN THERE. YES. AND SEE WHAT COUNCIL, WHAT DAYS ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOU. 'CAUSE WE KNOW THAT YOUR DANCE CARD'S GONNA GET FULL PRETTY QUICK, UH, IN DECEMBER, GOING TO ALL THE EVENTS THAT YOU HAVE TO GO TO. OKAY. OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU FOR THAT DIRECTION. ALL RIGHT. MIDNIGHT ITEM NUMBER [7. New Business Updates – David Walton] SEVEN, NEW BUSINESS UPDATE. MR. WALTON. GOOD EVENING. MR. MAYOR, PRO TEM MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, UH, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING EARTH SHATTERING FOR YOU. UH, THE ONLY NOTE THAT I REALLY HAVE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM LAST MONTH IS THAT WE ARE GOING TO ALSO EXTEND EXPIRATIONS TO, UM, ADDITIONAL PROJECTS THAT HAVE NOT STARTED, UH, THAT DATE BACK TO 22. UH, THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE REGAL STORAGE EXPANSION THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE REMODEL OF CHUCK E CHEESE, AND THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE, UM, EV CHARGING STATIONS AT THE KOHL'S. UH, THESE ARE, ARE PROJECTS THAT, FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER HAVE NOT, UM, SEEN REALIZATION, ALTHOUGH WE DO HAVE APPLICATIONS OR WE DID ISSUE PERMITS FOR THEM. UM, THE DIFFICULTY WITH HOLDING ONTO THESE PROJECTS IN THE LONG TERM IS THAT AS CODES CHANGE, SUCH AS THE ELECTRICAL CODE, WHICH WHICH WE HAVE ADOPTED, THE 23, UM, UH, UH, NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE VERSUS THE PREVIOUS EDITION, WHICH WAS THE 2020, UH, THEY ARE GRANDFATHERED IN AT THE TIME OF PERMITTING, AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION TO THE CODE AT THE TIME THAT, THAT IT CAME IN. SO IT MAKES MY STAFF HAVE TO GO OUT THERE AND NOT ONLY REMEMBER WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS ARE FOR ONE PROJECT, BUT WHAT CHANGED AND, AND HOW THEY HAVE TO REVIEW SOMETHING ELSE OR INSPECT SOMETHING ELSE. SO IT'S BEST JUST TO EXPIRE THEM AS THE, UM, BUILDING CODE ALLOWS AND AS OUR ORDINANCE ALLOWS AND, UH, HAVE THEM RESUBMIT WHEN THEY'RE READY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT PROJECT. FAIR ENOUGH. ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERN OR CONCERNS? NONE FOR MS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU DAVID. REGULAR AGENDA [8. Staff Updates] ITEM NUMBER EIGHT, STAFF UPDATES MISSED FOR CITY MANAGER. UH, JUST WANTED TO PUT ON THE AGENDA. WE'LL KEEP THIS, UH, GOING ON. UM, UM, MS. COUNCIL'S WELL AWARE WE, UH, NOTIFIED THE EDGEWATER RESIDENTS ABOUT THE OUTSTANDING, UH, BILL, UH, THAT WENT OUT, UM, LAST WEEK. AND WE POSTED A SIGN AND THERE WERE SEVERAL, UH, NEWS STATION, UH, COVERED IN THE, IN THE PAPER. UH, SINCE THAT TIME, THE APARTMENT COMPLEX HAS SUBMITTED, UH, TWO PAYMENTS OF 12,500 EACH. SO THEY'VE PAID A TOTAL OF 25,000, BUT THE NEW BILL HAS COME IN. AND SO THE NEW BALANCE IS APPROXIMATELY 70,000, UH, UH, DOLLARS, UH, THIS POINT. SO YEAH, THEY'RE MAKING PROGRESS, BUT EACH MONTH THERE'S A NEW BILL THAT COMES ON. I'M HOPEFUL THAT THEY WILL, UH, PAY FOR THAT. BUT, UH, AS I'VE TOLD THE APARTMENT COMP, UH, COMPLEX OWNER THAT I WILL KEEP THE SIGN UP IN FRONT OF THE APARTMENT UNTIL THE BILL'S PAID IN FULL. WHAT KIND OF FEEDBACK ARE WE GETTING FROM THE RESIDENTS? UH, THE RESIDENTS WERE THANKFUL FOR US NOTIFYING, UH, THEM. I THINK THEY MAY HAVE WANTED TO BE NOTIFIED, YOU KNOW, SOONER, BUT REALLY NONE OF THEM, I, I HAVE NOT TAKEN A CALL WHERE THEY WERE UPSET WITH THE CITY. UH, JAMES, JAMES AND I ARE TAKING, YOU KNOW, THOSE CALLS AND, UM, WE'VE HAD CALLS AND, AND TE AND TENANTS COME IN AND NOBODY'S COMPLAINED ABOUT THE CITY. THEY'RE THANKFUL THAT WE TOOK THE ACTION. AND, UM, WE EXPLAINED WHY IT TOOK A WHILE TO GET TO THAT POINT. SO THEY UNDERSTAND. AND ONLY THING I HAVE HEARD THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, HOMEOWNERS, YOU KNOW, SAYING THAT, THAT WE DON'T PAY OUR BILLS IN 30 DAYS. THEY COMPARE US OFF. AND I EXPLAINED TO THEM, THIS IS NOT HOME. APARTMENT DWELLERS DIDN'T PAY THE BILL. IT'S THE DIFFERENT SITUATION. YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE PAID THEIR BILL TO THE, UH, OWNERS AND THE OWNERS HAVE NEGLECTED TO FORWARD THAT MONEY TO THE, TO THE CITY. SO IT'S NOT THE SAME SITUATION. SO, UH, THAT'S THE ONLY THING I, DID THE OWNERS BE ON THESE TWO PAYMENTS? DID THEY COME UP WITH A SPECIFIC PLAN OF, OKAY, NEXT WEEK WE'LL GIVE YOU THIS PAYMENT OR THAT PAYMENT? OR IS THAT JUST KIND OF LEFT? THEY HAVE SAID THAT THERE WILL BE ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT PAYMENT, UH, THIS MONTH. THEY SAID NOVEMBER 15TH, 25,000, AND THEN BY DECEMBER 15TH, ANOTHER 25,000 AND HAD MONTH TO THIS. BUT THEN, BUT THEN THEY'LL STILL BE SHORT BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT BILLS THAT'LL BE COMING OUT. YEAH. YEAH. SO SHOULD TELL THEM THEY NEED TO PAY THAT ADDITIONAL TO THEIR CURRENT BILLS THAT ARE COMING. AND THE CITY MANAGER DID NOT IN HIS EMAIL, HE DID REMIND IN THE [01:45:01] EMAIL, I, I, I NOTIFIED, THEY STILL HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT, YOU KNOW, THE CURRENT BILL IS STILL COMING UP. THEY STILL HAVE TO PAY THAT AS WELL, BESIDES THE BALANCE. SO WE'LL KEEP THIS ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA JUST TO KEEP YOU POSTED OF WHAT'S GOING ON. AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC HAS A RECORD OF OF WHAT'S GOING ON. I HAVE, UM, FOR RIGHT NOW I HAVE REFRAINED FROM COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY WITH THEIR RESIDENTS. UH, THEY ARE, THEY ARE, THEY'RE DOING SO. OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE? UH, NO [9. Construction Updates] CONSTRUCTION UPDATES FROM SALVADOR. CALL . UH, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON ANY, UH, OF THE PROJECTS, SIR? THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE IS I STILL SEE THE, UH, THE, UH, UM, BEACH WATER CHEMICAL BUILDINGS STILL ON THE, I THINK THE WORK IS DONE, RIGHT? YEAH, THE WORK IS DONE. UH, THERE'S GONNA BE, YEAH, A PUNCH, A PUNCH LIST IS GONNA BE ABLE TO, UNLESS, UH, YOU HAVE ANY NO. IS THAT IT ANYMORE? IS THAT IT? IF WE GOT ANY RESPONSE FROM THE WHEELER DRIVE PIECE OF PROPERTY WE'RE TRYING TO SHOW IS, IS WE DID NOT GET ANY BIDS. SO WE ARE PREPARING, GOING OUT AGAIN AND TRYING TO REACH OUT TO, UH, THE TWO, UM, PEOPLE IN THE PAST THAT HAD EXPRESSED AN INTEREST. UH, SO WE'RE GONNA TRY ONE MORE TIME AND SEE AND THEN, UM, BUT THE FIRST BID, UH, OPENING, UH, NO RESPONSE. TAKE TIME. THANKS Y'ALL. OKAY. I THINK WITH THAT WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEMS [ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST] OF COMMUNITY INTEREST. WE'LL START WITH MR. ELL, MR. S ITEMS. UH, FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK THE STAFF AND EVERYBODY FOR THE GREAT, UH, TRICK-OR-TREATING THING. THE EVENT THEY PUT UP FOR THE KIDDOS, UH, DURING THE HALLOWEEN WAS A GREAT SUCCESS AFTER THE KIDS HAD A FUND, INCLUDING THEIR PARENTS. UH, SO IT WAS A GREAT EVENT. SO THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR ALL THEIR WORK. UH, AND THEN COUPLE OTHER ITEMS. THAT IS A, UH, I KNOW WE HAVE A SIDEWALK PROJECT, A CITY OWNED PROPERTY THAT WE FIX. SO ON THE PROJECT, IF YOU CAN ADD THE SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF THE PLANTATION OAKS, UH, PARK, UH, ON UH, SUMAC STREET, THERE'S A SIDEWALK THAT'S KIND OF BUSTED IN THE FRONT THERE. NOT TOO BAD, BUT WE HAVE SOME EXTRA CONCRETE SOMETIMES AT SUMAC. YEAH. UH, THE THING IS, NORTH Y POND IS, UH, DURING A RECENT, UH, UH, DROUGHT AND RAIN HAS CAUSED IT TO BUCKLE UP SEVERAL TIMES, SEVERAL PLACES THAT'S GETTING BAD AGAIN. SO MAYBE THE BLACKTOP PUTTING SOME BLACKTOPS THERE SO CAN REVISIT THE WHOLE STREET NORTH GON AND SEE IF THEY COULD HELP THAT STREET LAST A LITTLE BIT LONGER. THAT'S IT. OKAY. MS. SETH, I, MR. INTEREST ONE HIGH FIVE TO OUR CITIZENS ON PATROL. OUR KIDS WERE OUT HANDING OUT CANDY ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT AND THEY WERE DRIVING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOODS ALSO HANDING OUT CANDY. SO THAT WAS KIND OF FUN FOR THE KIDS TO SEE. SO DRESSED UP LIKE POLICE OFFICERS, LIKE PRESUME THEY WERE JUST HOLLERING AT THE KIDS FROM THE CAR WHO HAD CANDY FREE CANDY FREE CANDY. MR. BAKER, UH, DON'T HAVE ANYTHING. I JUST GOT ONE QUESTION FOR CITY MANAGER. UH, MONACO FIRE, WAS THAT JUST ONE APARTMENT OR WAS THAT I'LL LET DAVEY UH, DAVID DAVEY DAVID THE FIRE AT MONACO VILLA THIS LAST WEEKEND WAS CONTAINED TO ONE UNIT. IT DID DAMAGE TO THE UNIT TO THE POINT WHERE IT'S NOT HABITABLE. UH, MAINLY BECAUSE, UH, DURING THE, UM, EXPRESSION ACTIVITIES, THE FIRE, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT DID HAVE TO REMOVE INTERIOR SHEET ROCK REMOVED PORTIONS OF THE KITCHEN WALLS AND WHATNOT. UH, IT'S VERY REPLACEABLE. THERE WAS NO EXTENSION INTO THE STRUCTURE ITSELF. UM, IT WAS CONTAINED JUST WITHIN THAT ONE UNIT, THE RESIDENCE IN AND AROUND THAT UNIT. UH, HEARD, HEARD THE FIRE ALARM SMELLED THE SMOKE. SO IT WASN'T NO DISCOVERED IT ELECTRIC FIRE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? NO SIR. NO. UH, UNINTENDED COOKING IS, IS WHAT, UH, I WAS TOLD THE CAUSE WAS. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND THEN WE DID HAVE A FIRE AT A GARAGE. YES. WE HAD TO FIND A GARAGE. YEAH. OVER ON SANDAL WITH IT. THAT IS CORRECT. UH, THAT, UH, UH, WAS ONE THAT, UH, DID SEVERELY DAMAGE THE GARAGE, BUT DID ALSO EXTEND INTO THE HOUSE. AND SO, UM, UNTIL THEY CAN HAVE A CONTRACTOR, AN ELECTRICIAN GO IN AND VERIFY THAT THERE WAS NO DAMAGE TO THE ELECTRICAL WIRES, WHICH IS OUR MAIN CONCERN RIGHT NOW. UM, BECAUSE THERE, THE [01:50:01] HOUSE STRUCTURE ITSELF WASN'T DAMAGED, BUT SOME OF THAT OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE WOULD'VE BEEN. UH, SO THEY, THEY, THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO. WELL, NO ONE, NO ONE'S GONNA BE STAYING THERE. OKAY. THERE'S NO RESTRICTION ON SOMEBODY GOING IN AND GETTING THEIR OWN PROPERTY OUT. UH, SO THEY COULD EASILY GO AND DO THAT. BUT, UH, WE POST THESE BUILDINGS WITH A RED NOTICE OF OKAY. OF DANGER. DO NOT OCCUPY JUST TO, UH, LET OTHERS KNOW THAT THERE IS AN INHERENT DANGER IN BEING THERE, BUT IT DOES NOT RESTRICT, UH, AUTHORIZED PEOPLE SUCH AS HOMEOWNERS, CONTRACTORS, UM, INSURANCE AGENTS FROM GOING IN AND DOING THEIR JOB. WHERE WAS THAT ONE? 11 SANDALWOOD. SANDALWOOD. SANDALWOOD. THAT WAS JUST A COUPLE NIGHTS AGO. A CON LAKE ON LAKE. OKAY. THAT'S IT. I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE. JUST ONE MORE THING PLEASE. IF WE HAVEN'T VOTED YET, PLEASE GO VOTE. YES. OH YEAH. TOMORROW IS VOTING DAY. BUT OTHER THAN THAT, AND THERE ARE TWO LOCATIONS. YEAH, THE CIVIC CENTER AND FISCAL CHAIR CHURCH. THAT WAS VERY HELPFUL. YOU SENDING THAT OUT. VERY. I DIDN'T KNOW THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. YEAH, I DIDN'T KNOW LAST MINUTE. VERY HELPFUL. CAN YOU VOTE ANYWHERE? YOU STILL VOTE ANYWHERE? YOU CAN. I HAVE TO VOTE IN YOUR HOME. NO, YOU CAN VOTE ANYWHERE IN YOUR EVEN ON ELECTION DAY. YES. BECAUSE I USED TO NOT BE TRUE. RIGHT? YOU USED TO HAVE ONE CHANGE CHANGED. THREE OR FOUR ELECTION CYCLES BACK. I WAS TOLD BY THEM THAT THE COUNTY, WE HAVE VOTING CENTERS IN LADO COUNTY. SO YOU CAN VOTE AT ANY VOTING CENTERS. YEAH, I VOTED AT PRECINCT FOUR. IT'S YOUR OFFICE. UH, A COUPLE DAYS AGO. FIRST TIME I I SEE YOU. YEAH. FIRST TIME I HADN'T VOTED HERE IN LAKE JACKSON SINCE I CAN EVER RECALL. WE FOUND OURSELVES EASY IN AND EASY OUT. YEAH, IT WAS, IT WAS GREAT. WE WERE HAD AN EXTRA HOUR AND DIDN'T TAKE THAT LONG AT ALL. BUT ANYWAYS, SO I GUESS THAT'S IT. AND THAT WE WILL BE ADJOURNED. 8 22. THANK YOU. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.